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  • January 5, 2005 / by Robin Munson

    FEAR ITSELF

    FEAR ITSELF Yesterday I was talking about “just in case” scenarios and how we spend so much of our time and energy (and money) preparing for the worst. Then I remembered another one. A couple of weeks ago, Art and I bought a car. We had done our “due diligence”, reading up on the various

  • January 4, 2005 / by Robin Munson

    JUST IN CASE

    JUST IN CASE Well, it’s come again. I can’t avoid it anymore. It’s the yearly clean up. This is the beginning of a process wherein I gather up all the papers from the past year, file them away in big cardboard boxes with labels like, “Bank Statements, 2004”, “Business Receipts, 2004”, etc., and then stack

  • January 3, 2005 / by Robin Munson

    CREATURES OF HABIT

    CREATURES OF HABIT This is one of those days that make you want to sleep. We are receiving our third drenching in a week. When I woke up, the rain was coming down hard and fast, and the skies were heavy with charcoal gray clouds. There was a chill in the morning air that made

  • January 2, 2005 / by Robin Munson

    TAKING DOWN THE TREE

    TAKING DOWN THE TREE or THE TREE IS DEAD – LONG LIVE THE TREE! Today is January 2nd. At last, the holidays, which began some five to nine weeks ago, are over (depending on whether you started counting on Halloween or Thanksgiving). This is our traditional day for taking down the Christmas tree. It is

  • December 31, 2004 / by Robin Munson

    HAPPY NEW YEAR!

    HAPPY NEW YEAR! One last day for 2004. (Perhaps for some of you reading this, it is already 2005)! Here in Southern California, the Good Lord has chosen to force us into a day of contemplation. The rain is coming down fast and furious, and as you probably know by now, Angelinos do not travel

  • December 31, 2004 / by Robin Munson

    A DAY WITH MY SISTERS

    A DAY WITH MY SISTERS Some of you may remember that my sister, Michele, is getting married on January 1st, New Year’s Day, 2005. Our whole family is in happy anticipation of the event. There is a tradition that has evolved in our family. When one of us gets married, she treats the others to

  • December 29, 2004 / by Robin Munson

    RAIN ON THE DESERT

    RAIN ON THE DESERT Last night the rains came. We live in Southern California, which is, in fact, a desert community. Of course, no one ever thinks about Southern California as a desert community, because we siphon off water from the Colorado River and use it to irrigate our green lawns and fill our swimming

  • December 28, 2004 / by Robin Munson

    A DISORGANIZED REVIEW OF 2004

    A DISORGANIZED REVIEW OF 2004 I have an undisciplined mind. Even eighteen years of school could not change that fact. My mind swings from idea to idea, like a monkey swinging from tree to tree. The connection between ideas may be paper-thin, but my mind leaps and soars without hesitation, in spite of the fact

  • December 27, 2004 / by Robin Munson

    OUR GLOBAL NEIGHBORHOOD

    OUR GLOBAL NEIGHBORHOOD We heard on the news last night that there has been a catastrophic earthquake in Sumatra, Indonesia, which has caused tsunamis – giant tidal waves – in many locations along the Indian Ocean. Thousands of people are known to have lost their lives, and perhaps tens of thousands or more have lost

  • December 26, 2004 / by Robin Munson

    PEACE

    PEACE It is December 26th. There is a hush over our house. My husband is asleep, and our cat, Henry, is curled up at the foot of the bed. I have just made a brief tour of the wreckage that was Christmas Day, 2004. There are bits of raffia scattered all over the kitchen counter