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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.
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A Sink By the Side of the Road in Paris
Years ago I was driving in Paris….wait, what a fun sentence to write, let me say that again, “Years ago I was driving in Paris.”
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Opinion: Susan Dromey Heeter on a Bad Idea
Years ago, Saturday Night Live did a skit called, “Bad Idea Jeans.” In it, characters wore jeans labeled, “Bad Idea Jeans” and for the commercial parody, suggested ideas that, of course, were bad ideas.
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Back To School in a Pandemic: I’ve Got This
Earlier this week I learned my school will be going back in full, in person, in a pandemic.