Saturday, January 6, 2007
Originally published in LLL US Western Division’s Connections #91, September/October 2000 It was a subdued crowd that night on the airplane from Denver to Chicago. Hot and dispirited, we’d all had to make new travel arrangements after a three-hour delay. I’d phoned home to report that my connecting flight to Pittsburgh had been cancelled and […]
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Co-written with Judy Minami. Originally published in LLL US Western Division’s Connections #72, July/August 1997. You’ve packed and you’ve planned for this La Leche League event. And now the time for the Area Conference, Regional Meeting, CARE Workshop, staff meeting, or LLLI Conference is finally here. Like a kid in a candy store, it is […]
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Originally published in LLL US Western Division’s Connections #79, September/October 1998 I am envious of the people who live in Millvale. It’s a small community crowded onto the sides of a ravine above the Allegheny River in Pittsburgh. When I need my typewriter or VCR fixed, I drive down the Glenshaw Valley to a small […]
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Thursday, January 4, 2007
Originally published in LLL US Western Division’s Connections #72, July/August 1997 It happens to all of us once in a while and usually when we least expect it. A lull. A break. A pause in the whirlwind of La Leche League meetings, projects, and phone calls. And although the break may be as short as […]
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Thursday, January 4, 2007
Originally published in LLL US Western Division’s Connections #94, March/April 2001 It was the first month in our sons’ new school district, and I received an invitation to go to a “Newcomers’ Meeting†at the school administration office with other move-in parents and the superintendent. I was expecting folding chairs, bad coffee, and long speeches.
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Thursday, January 4, 2007
Co-written with Judy Minami. Originally published in LLL US Western Division’s Connections #70, March-April 1997 For Area Administrators, major La Leche League events such as Area Conferences, Area Council Meetings, and other LLL gatherings usually entail more than simply attending sessions and gleaning information. You may be involved in planning the sessions or a specific […]
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Wednesday, January 3, 2007
Originally published in LLL US Western Division’s Connections #70, March/April 1997 On our recent family trip to England, I was enthusiastic about visiting the town of St. Ives. I wanted to walk down the path to the little village just like the man in the Mother Goose nursery rhyme. I had also read that St. […]
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Wednesday, January 3, 2007
Originally published in LLL US Western Division’s Connections #86, November/December 1999 When my family moved into our home on the top of a ridge in north Pittsburgh, we inherited a property full of work. Tree stumps at our feet, tree limbs in our faces, rotting railroad ties, old brush piles, and overgrown wild rose thickets […]
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Wednesday, January 3, 2007
Originally published in LLL US Western Division’s Connections #77, May/June 1998 We are not the only family to have lived in this north Pittsburgh house. The Nesbit family bough the lot from John and Catherin Cummings over 30 years ago, one of seven lots carved out of the old Calvert Estate. In 1968 the Nesbits […]
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Wednesday, January 3, 2007
Originally published in LLL US Western Division’s Connections #73, September/October 1997 “All through the year we are getting ready; getting ready for fishing, for berry picking, for potlatches, getting ready for winter.†Agnes Bostrom, quoted in Always Getting Ready—Upterrlainarluta, by James H. Barker. Central Yu’pik Eskimo elders of Southwest Alaska stress the importance of upterrlainarluta, […]
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