Bagels and Floods

The Four-Slice Wonder. Cream Cheese and Choices We had a bad day, here, not too long ago. He said something, or maybe I did, and it didn’t sit right on the other’s heart, and suddenly we were scowling and snapping words out of thin air, turning our backs and letting untold annoyances overflow their banks. […]


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Cadence’s Fair Game

Cadence and the Army Men. The Epic Next to the Coffee Table “Lala, I’ll be the green guys,” Cadence said, as we hunkered down on the living room floor. “You can be the brown guys. And here: You can have my Green Lantern.” He offered me a plastic toy that stood in Gulliveresque proportion to […]


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Birds and Bees

Our Front Deck. After Rain. The Echium Has Attained Seussical Proportions.  The Incredible Sweetness of Being, Part Eight Rain blessed our land and now everything is drying and the creatures are hungry. I’m watching the Echium. Its purple torches call the bees. They’re calling the hummingbirds. The camera calls me so I step onto the deck, inhale […]


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what’s your Academy Award?

Is it a great post? A book? A big crowd at your birthday party? or…..???? how you served God?— Best regards, Sheila sheilalagrand.com


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networks and …. pies

because that’s how we roll.  — Best regards, Sheila sheilalagrand.com


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