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  • December 25, 2004 / by Robin Munson

    MERRY CHRISTMAS!

    Dear Friends, I am posting the lyric to one of my songs which I think is in keeping with the season. It was inspired by a comment made by Norman Rockwell towards the end of his life. He was responding to the criticism of his work as being unrealistic and too idyllic. (I paraphrased his

  • December 24, 2004 / by Robin Munson

    PLAYING HOOKY

    PLAYING HOOKY Of course, one good thing about having a cold is that nobody expects anything of you. Let’s just say, for example, you’re expected to show up at an annual Christmas gathering where you’ve never felt entirely comfortable. Well, you can call the host and plead infirmity. Voila! You’re off the hook! (If there

  • December 23, 2004 / by Robin Munson

    CHANCE ENCOUNTERS

    CHANCE ENCOUNTERS In spite of our colds, Art and I spent the day yesterday in that old holiday tradition of buying a new car. We’d been having trouble with the old car off and on for as long as we have had it, and so we decided to go for something a bit more dependable

  • December 23, 2004 / by Robin Munson

    WINTER COLDS

    WINTER COLDS My father-in-law gets a cold every winter like clockwork. If you ask him how he feels some time between December and March, he will inevitably say, “Oh, I’ve got my winter cold”. It’s not exactly that he likes having a cold in winter; it’s just that he expects it. We develop a strange,

  • December 22, 2004 / by Robin Munson

    LET’S HEAR IT FOR SILENT ARGUMENTS

    LET’S HEAR IT FOR SILENT ARGUMENTS I had a silent argument with my husband today. What is that? Well, it goes something like this: He does or says something that evokes an emotional response in me. I get angry. But instead of lashing out the way I would have twenty or thirty years ago, I

  • December 21, 2004 / by Robin Munson

    A WORD ABOUT THE HOLIDAYS – ANOTHER ONE

    A WORD ABOUT THE HOLIDAYS (ANOTHER ONE) I just got off the phone with my sister. We were comparing notes about our progress with the holiday madness. Both of us have been having the same experience. We have a list. We are organized. We go down our gift lift methodically. We buy a thoughtful gift

  • December 20, 2004 / by Robin Munson

    GATHERING NUTS FOR WINTER – A SQUIRRELLY IDEA

    GATHERING NUTS FOR WINTER – A SQUIRRELLY IDEA A very kind reader e-mailed me yesterday and said that it was good to find a blog that was not geared to people under twenty-five. Phew! That’s a relief to me, because I keep imagining people reading my posts and saying to themselves, “She’s just so out-of-it,

  • December 19, 2004 / by Robin Munson

    FOR US GIRLS (AND SOME OF YOU GUYS)

    FOR US GIRLS (AND SOME OF YOU GUYS) My sister is getting married on New Year’s Day. That’s my older sister. (I think we’ve already established that I am way north of thirty-five). My younger sister (younger by one year only) just got married in July – to a man who is chronologically quite a

  • December 18, 2004 / by Robin Munson

    HO-HO-HO-HUM

    HO-HO-HO-HUM Dear Readers, This is a gentle reminder that, especially at this hectic time of the year, it is vitally important for all of us to be well rested and not to overextend ourselves. Like I did yesterday. For those of you who may have been reading my posts for a couple of months, you

  • December 17, 2004 / by Robin Munson

    WHAT DID JESUS LOOK LIKE?

    WHAT DID JESUS LOOK LIKE? Last night Art and I were watching CNN, and they showed part of a documentary about Jesus. The thrust of this particular piece was that people were curious about Jesus’ physical appearance. They showed many renderings of Jesus throughout many different cultures. What was striking, and this was noted, was