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As I type, the Ski Boy and I are marooned at LAX. We’re taking the scenic route to Hawaii: Anchorage to Seattle to LA to Honolulu. All went well until we arrived in LA and discovered that our Hawaii flight is 3 hours late. Instead of leaving at 6:00 PM, it’s now leaving at 9:00 […]

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It’s been a very busy week culminating this evening in a frenzy of packing. The Ski Boy and I are off bright and early tomorrow morning to the land of surf, sun, and mai-tai’s. Now, once you get past your drooling envy, you might ask, “Why does anyone go to Hawaii in July????”. Well, Peter […]

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One down, many more to go in the still unfolding saga of Alaska state legislators and special bribes and extortion. There has been an odorous stink about Alaska politics for the past several years. The stink was right out in the open but nothing was done. Not until the Feds finally stepped in.
Tom Anderson, a […]

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Quite the commentary, last week, from Keith Olbermann regarding President Bush’s pardon commuting of Scooter Libby’s sentence. Olbermann quotes John Wayne’s comment after Kennedy narrowly defeated Nixon in the 1960 presidential election:
I didn’t vote for him, but he’s my President and I hope he does a good job.
Olbermann is extremely smart and well spoken. Although […]

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And now, just for Frankie: Tyge!
This picture was taken on a sunny evening a few weeks ago when Tygey and I were Geocaching at Earthquake Park. What you don’t see in the picture are the 10,000 blood sucking mosquitoes that were moments away from attacking us.
Tyge really does hate to have his picture taken. Hence […]

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After a long hiatus, Mom is back up and blogging again! Yea!!!!!!

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The Ski Boy, Tyge, and I had a relaxing day - although I was definitely further out on the relaxed spectrum than Tyge and Peter. They rolled out of bed at 8:00 AM to head off with their buddies on an early Independence Day run. I routed out in time for coffee at 10:30 AM.
This […]

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Libby was convicted and sentenced - just like hundreds of folks. But the folks not named Scooter and who are not the Veep’s former chief of staff go to jail. They don’t pass go and they don’t collect $200. If Scooter were not an insider, his sentence would not have been commuted. Hundreds of other […]

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