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Monday, December 29, 2008

Simply Living: Turtle encounter raises questions

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Simply Living (First appeared in Orlando Sentinel December 29, 2008) We saw her at the same time. My son Toby was downstairs, looking out. I...
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Monday, December 22, 2008

Transitions and Trees

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Simply Living (First appeared in Orlando Sentinel December 22, 2008) If you had told me in 1992 that one day I would be aggressively selecti...
Monday, December 15, 2008

Good old spider plants -- they just can't help but thrive

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Simply Living (First appeared in Orlando Sentinel December 15, 2008) If you're an indoor gardener you probably have a spider plant, and ...
Monday, December 8, 2008

Some treats take drudgery out of endless errands

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Simply Living (First appeared in Orlando Sentinel December 8, 2008) I'm not a big fan of shopping, but that doesn't mean I don't...
Monday, December 1, 2008

Mexican sunflowers prove beauty can emerge from blah origins

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Simply Living (First appeared in Orlando Sentinel December 1, 2008) The area above my kitchen sink smells wonderful. It's not from a new...
Monday, November 24, 2008

Simply living: The ebb and flow of life on lake over the years

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Simply Living (First appeared in Orlando Sentinel November 24, 2008) Every night like clockwork, an osprey roosts on our lake. When I say ...
Monday, November 17, 2008

The beauty of a compost pile is that anything can happen

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Simply Living (First appeared in Orlando Sentinel November 17, 2008) About four months ago, my husband, Ralph, and I built a new compost pil...
Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Those crazy red birds - they've turned windows into battle zones

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Simply Living (First appeared in Orlando Sentinel November 10, 2008) I'm surrounded by crazy red birds. There's one by the kitchen b...
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Monday, November 3, 2008

Your one vote counts in this election: I learned the hard way

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Simply Living (First appeared in Orlando Sentinel November 3, 2008) Tomorrow is Election Day, and I hope you're planning to vote. This y...
Monday, October 27, 2008

Bountiful Fig Crop is Welcome Event

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SIMPLY LIVING (First appeared in Orlando Sentinel October 27, 2008) For the first time ever, our fig trees have produced more fruit than my ...
Monday, October 20, 2008

Whatever your age, revel in the present moment

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Simply Living (First appeared in Orlando Sentinel October 20, 2008) From my father's perspective, at age 96, I'm just a kid. It does...
Monday, October 13, 2008

It's subtle, but Florida offers fall sensations -- no need to wander

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Simply Living (First appeared in Orlando Sentinel October 13, 2008) My daughter Jenny, who lives in western Massachusetts, says New England...
Sunday, October 12, 2008

The sweet, sweet papaya - a fruit, a salad, a renewal

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Simply Living (First appeared in Orlando Sentinel October 6, 2008) Until I moved to Florida in 1987, I had never tasted a papaya. Back then,...
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Monday, September 29, 2008

Along came two spiders - and not the itsy-bitsy variety

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Simply Living (First appeared in Orlando Sentinel September 29, 2008) The eight-legged crowd apparently considers the area directly outside ...
Monday, September 22, 2008

Appreciating family and recalling tree-climbing days - all because of avocados

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Simply Living (First appeared in Orlando Sentinel September 22, 2008) If Timmy were here, he would have shimmied up the avocado tree in Paul...
Monday, September 15, 2008

Web is handy when all you can get live is pity-Scrabble

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Simply Living (First appeared on September 15, 2008 in Orlando Sentinel) I've been playing a lot of online Scrabble lately. Instead of m...
Monday, September 8, 2008

The ordinary becomes extraordinary through Florida visitors' eyes

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Simply Living (First appeared in Orlando Sentinel September 8, 2008) Sometimes we forget how extraordinary our surroundings are, and it help...
Monday, September 1, 2008

Have some patience -- and the best pineapple you ever tasted

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Simply Living (First appeared in Orlando Sentinel September 1, 2008) We just finished eating our third freshly picked pineapple of the seaso...
Monday, August 25, 2008

As she hands over the car keys to son, they both become freer

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Simply Living (First appeared in Orlando Sentinel August 25, 2008) "When the brake lights go on in the car in front of you, prepare to ...
Monday, August 18, 2008

New appreciation of life ascends 13 steps up the clay wall

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Simply Living (First appeared in Orlando Sentinel August 18, 2008) When we built our house 16 years ago, the spot we selected was on the slo...