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The Best News in the World

January 5, 2017 by Mama Jo

The Best News in the World

If you’re a mom you know what it feels like to be sleep deprived. There’s nothing quite like being woken up every few hours by a tiny newborn who requires your full functioning and undivided attention throughout the night in order to sustain life. The challenging thing is not all little people learn how to […]

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Newsprint and Obits

March 30, 2015 by Mama Jo

I have a long love of the printed word, specifically newsprint. You can read more about that here. But we don’t get the newspaper at our house. It’s a generational thing, I guess because you’d better believe when either my folks or my in-laws are in town there are newspapers here; they make sure of […]

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Snow Dances

November 17, 2014 by Mama Jo

Snow Dances

Today, it snowed. Blankets of pristine snow covered the still-green grass. Winter came early this year. Not that it doesn’t usually snow in mid-November in Ohio. It’s just that today it really snowed. Schools were closed and travel was treacherous. Most Ohioians were disgruntled and grumbling. But not everyone was cursing the snow. At 9:30 […]

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