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in science.  And I believe in [E]volution. And I’m trying to come up with another explanation for why I’d throw myself in front of a truck if it would save my daughter’s life. Tell me where is fancy bred Or in the heart, or in the head? How begot, how nourished? Reply, reply. It is […]

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One 1998 Volvo V70 XC 2.4L 20 valve turbo with ~81,100 miles sold for $8,500. Via con dios, coche.

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CNN has a brief review today of a new biography of Ava Gardner.  We didn’t name Ava after Gardner, but she did cross our minds as we were coming up with girl names (which, we’ve decided, are much easier to come up with than boy names). Ava Gardner was a real player.  The biography sounds […]

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We were off to sunny Lake Zurich, IL, to visit my friend A.J. and his family over the weekend.  It was a nice trip.  We went to the Brookfield Zoo with the kids on Saturday.  Ava was afraid of the merry-go-round and the dolphin show, but she loved looking at the baboons.  On the drive […]

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And it goes like this: Everyone I know signs up for a Gmail account. That’s it. The end. Web-based, so you can get to it anywhere. Plenty of storage, so you never have to worry about whether some IT heavy is going to show up and tell you to empty your inbox. The way in […]

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I was standing at the kitchen sink at about quarter past 8 last night doing dishes.  It was a beautiful evening, nice and cool(ish) and still.  But it wasn’t particularly quiet.  Leah was in the other room trying to put Ava to sleep, and Ava wasn’t having any of it.  She was tired, but she […]

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