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Sweet Juniper on the Automakers Bailout

November 19, 2008 by Pamela Parker Caird Leave a Comment

From one of my favorite blogs, SweetJuniper.com: I do see this economic climate as an opportunity for change. It is a chance for us all to step back and think about where the things we buy are made, and all of what that means. It is a chance to accept that much of what we…

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Celebration

November 6, 2008 by Pamela Parker Caird 1 Comment

This is a photo of the front door of our building this morning. I think our neighbors are excited, for some reason. We stayed up to watch the big speech, in part because it was too hard to sleep with the excitement and the honking, shouting and other loud expressions of joy outside our apartment….

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Skills to collect

October 22, 2008 by Pamela Parker Caird 6 Comments

Making sugar from sugar cane. Rounding up hogs. Making clothes out of flour sacks. These are some of the skills that helped my father’s family through the Great Depression on their ranch in TX. One of my favorite things to do is ask him about those days, and hear about how self-reliant the family was,…

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Filed Under: Current Affairs, Food & Drink, Fun & Games, Kitchen Gardening, Nature

What matters

September 30, 2008 by Pamela Parker Caird Leave a Comment

It’s a cliche, I know, to say family, friends and great experiences with them are the most important things in life. But in these frightening financial times, it’s calming to focus on something other than the stock market and politics for a few minutes. To that end, Abi Southerland has started a thread on Making…

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Filed Under: Current Affairs, Family

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