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Three Notebooks for Writing & Staying Organized

By Mary | by Mary

I have written about notebooks before on my blog, specifically my calendar journals here and here. I’m surprised, however, that I’ve never discussed my three notebook system for writing and staying organized. At any given time, I always have three notebooks going. One is the aforementioned calendar journal, which contains enough space for me to jot the important happenings of each day of the year. I’ve been keeping a calendar journal for decades now, so…

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Busy, Honking, Clean Boston

By Mary | by Mary

In October, I had a chance to visit Boston, Massachusetts, for a work conference. Hubby and I had never been to Boston, so he tagged along and we took a couple extra days to see the city. What a marvelous place! It was fairly easy for us to catch a bus from the airport to get to our hotel in the Back Bay area, not too far from Boston Common and the Charles River. In…

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family health history

Trust Me, You Do Not Want Polio

By Mary | by Mary

With Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. at the helm of the Department of Health and Human Services and the Centers for Disease Control, this vociferous anti-vaxxer wants to eliminate all vaccines. Based on my family’s experience, let me tell you why this is a very, very bad idea. Both of my parents had paralytic polio as children and it affected them their entire lives. My mom was struck by it on her first day of kindergarten.…

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