On the Rocks of Patience
I collected the rocks, walking over thousands, picking up ones I thought might make the best creation.
Living Dangerously with My Dover Library Grab Bag
At the Dover Library Book Sale, I put my confidence in those who orchestrated this yearly event, who sorted through books and media and created the oh so wonderful and oh so uncertain: Grab Bag.
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Taking a Cruise Inside Your Own Kitchen, How About Those Spoons
As more and more of us spend time inside, commuting from our bedrooms to our laptops, I muse joyfully on household trips, vacations and holidays that can transform our lives to jet-setting hotspots, exciting adventures, glorious travels.
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How Many Pogo Sticks Are Enough?
Today I muse joyfully on pogoing, on jumping up and down, on counting, on owning not one but four pogo sticks.
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Help, I’m Drowning in Old Photos
An old boyfriend from college was next to my daughter’s fourth birthday party, my sister smiled in her wedding dress from 1994.
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A World of Unprecedented Kindness
Unprecedented is a word that is used often lately – unprecedented pandemic, unprecedented wildfires, unprecedented politics. But today I muse joyfully on unprecedented kindness.
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Rest Stop Caviar, Poodles Running Iditarod, Lobsters at a Dover Gas Station
In a world where everything seems so deadly serious, we desperately need a little levity, a little hope, a little lightness of spirit.
Rest Assured: Susan Dromey Heeter Muses On Slacks and Ice Trays
“Slacks” are still labeled for the pants’ section of the Salvation Army Thrift Store. Slacks.
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Sometimes You Need to Get Out of Dodge
Wear your bathing suit and pack your Superman towel and get out of Dodge, escape from a world of Covid and politics and move into a place where cities look small, where clouds are within reach, where the 17 year old girls in the backseat of the Cessna dance to Tik Tok and eat Pringles.
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‘I Was Mom at the Top of the Stairs’
Today I muse joyfully on sibling shorthand, on those phrases recognized by those who once shared a household, those brothers and sisters who need no explanation, who get it from the start.