Category Archives: Daily Drama

It’s a bright and beautiful morning, especially if you are looking at it from inside a well-insulated office. As you can see, the temperature is still below freezing.

We have at least six inches of solidly frozen snow. It’s icy on the nearby roads, but we are going to make a morning run to Charlottesville in the Subaru. The big Dodge van is helpless on days like this. Once it gets moving, it is a heart-stopper trying to control it.

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I am down to one computer today. Time to do something drastic. Evidently, my non-stop editing and keyboarding has cought up with my aging machines. I have known about these problems, but I let them ride in the hopes that … Continue reading →

Point well taken. I’ll make a note of that. These just came in via email from our far-flung family. Wonderful shots. They were taken Jan 27, 2004. Must have been a good day for ice scrapers.

I want you to welcome Karen Best Andrésen to the blogosphere! Karen has created a new weblog  Grandparents Raising Grandchildren, and I am as pleased as any blogfather can be!

Karen, who is raising her own grandchildren, already had a static website Raising Your Grandchildren which provides support and information for grandparents who have stepped in and cared for the children of shattered families.

She intended that this site would be a forum where seniors could communicate and realize they were not alone. Her biggest concern was that she could not seem to reach the people she was trying to help.

I told her that blogging would give her the additional visibility that she needed. She started visiting weblogs beginning with the links on this page and has already added links to Ripples and Blue Ridge Muse.  She evidently saw the sense of community that we forge daily, because she has created a weblog worth visiting. Her weblog is full of advice and resources for grandparents caught in a situation they did not anticipate.

I would like you to visit her weblog and make her feel welcome. I know how much that means to a new blogger. 

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