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Essential Camp Dorothy Gear

Essential Camp Dorothy Gear

Welcome to the latest Camp Dorothy session, which began on Thanksgiving and ends tomorrow afternoon. This report gives an overview of nine items essential for a stellar Camp Dorothy experience. Please refer to the above to see a picture of each item. A comfy couch...

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Wild Plum Pudding: Back By Popular Demand

Wild Plum Pudding: Back By Popular Demand

At least, wild plum pudding is back by popular demand at our house this Thanksgiving. My sister is bringing this delicious dessert made from an heirloom recipe passed down through generations on Mom's side of the family. Here's the recipe, which appeared last year at...

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Top Ten Reasons to Be Thankful this Thanksgiving

Top Ten Reasons to Be Thankful this Thanksgiving

10. Our home is pet-free, so we can take off whenever we want. 9.   Costco's yellow legal pads and architecture mechanical pencils. Don't know why, but they make me very happy. 8.   The internet. It makes the writer's life so much easier. 7.   Public libraries....

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Where Were You When President Kennedy Was Shot?

Where Were You When President Kennedy Was Shot?

Have you tuned into to any of the programs commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the assassination of President Kennedy? Some of them have been fascinating, like the rebroadcast of the story Walter Cronkite put together ten years ago for NPR. It really is worth a...

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