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Monthly Archives: June 2012

Posies and leave-taking

June 28, 2012

Gaia, a friend of my 9-year-old daughter Meg, thrusts a gorgeous bunch of beautifully wrapped flowers into my hands outside …

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Inland Sea: Wind whistling through the winter barley

June 20, 2012

There are few things in the middle of the country–even such a relatively small one as England where it’s said …

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I really really like my daughter’s boyfriend (but please don’t let her know)

June 18, 2012

I had the first inkling that I’d like CJ even before he and my 17-year-old daughter Katie “got together.” CJ …

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I really really like my daughter’s boyfriend (but please don’t let her know)

June 18, 2012

I had the first inkling that I’d like CJ even before he and my 17-year-old daughter Katie “got together.” CJ …

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Letting go and emotional rescue

June 12, 2012

“Mommy?” My 17-year-old daughter Katie’s voice is clipped and tense over the phone.  She isn’t using her usual sing-song “Mommmmeeeee,” …

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The flotilla of “little boats,” Dunkirk, 1940

June 8, 2012

The evacuation of Dunkirk in which 338,000 British troops were rescued from the Nazi onslaught in June 1940 by the “little …

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Why We Loved the Queen Mum

June 7, 2012

1.  Because after the Nazis came close to killing her and her husband King George VI when they bombed Buckingham …

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Beacons across Britain: the Spanish Armada and the Queen’s Jubilee

June 5, 2012

In 1588, when the 151 ships of the Spanish Armada arrived off the coast with the intention of invading England …

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The Queen’s Jubilee: the flotilla of boats on the Thames

June 3, 2012

Photograph from the Guardian It was a cold, rainy day in London for the flotilla of boats celebrating the Jubilee, …

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Why We Love the Queen

June 1, 2012

Why We Love the Queen 1.  She keeps calm and carries on. 2.  She is who she is, with no …

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