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Entries from June 2006

Sears Tower Plot Foiled

June 22nd, 2006 · No Comments · Hot Off The Presses

Official: 7 arrested in Sears Tower plot - Yahoo! News
MIAMI - Seven people were arrested Thursday in connection with the early stages of a plot to attack Chicago’s Sears Tower and other buildings in the U.S., including the
FBI office here, a federal law enforcement official said.
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As part of the raids related to the arrests, FBI [...]

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Jiggety, Etc.

June 19th, 2006 · No Comments · Home Truths

It’s just so good to be home. It was even good to be at work.
Hmm.
I wonder why you can be home, but you can’t be work? It’s probably not that healthy to be work all the time, though.
There wasn’t a horrible amount of backlog, but there were a couple of things that [...]

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Walk On

June 18th, 2006 · No Comments · Connections

I made up a new playlist for myself in iTunes to try to help get my head screwed on straight after all that’s happened this week, Emotion is exhausting; so is grief, and so is dwelling on crap from the past (this is not all about Mom’s passing, but all the other issues and hurts [...]

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Beautiful Things

June 17th, 2006 · No Comments · Connections

My time staying in Mom’s little house is drawing to a close - tomorrow I return home, and someone else will finish sorting, tossing and reminiscing over photos, knick-knacks, and clippings that fall out of books. I’ve got a couple of boxes left to pack up, while my sister Timmy has been packing up the [...]

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Emotional Landmines May Take Any Form

June 15th, 2006 · No Comments · Connections

We three sisters have pretty much gone through Mom’s house and sorted things into piles and stacks; we keep finding things I call “landmines,” that have some emotional or sentimental value.

For instance, I found myself crying over a blackened skillet today. Also, a boxful of old photos and cards yielded a Father’s Day card I sent [...]

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