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Entries for May, 2008

Cute Little Story

We had a storm a couple nights back. Geetle was nervous when she went to bed. The next morning, we woke up and Geetle had migrated to Pookie’s bed.
When we were putting them to bed last night, Geetle asked Pookie if he wanted to sleep in her bed this time. He grabbed […]

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How the Y works

It dawned on me that it might be helpful to explain how the YMCA works to fulfill its mission of Putting Christian principles into practice through programs that build healthy spirit, mind and body for all.
First thing that’s important to know is that the YMCA is no longer a religious organization. Depending on where […]

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Cat’s Pajamas

Sippy Cup Book of the Week
This week’s book, Cat’s Pajamas by Thacher Hurd is another good one (in researching this post, I saw that Thacher Hurd is the son of Clement Hurd, who you may know is the author of Goodnight Moon). My daughter liked this book so much the librarian told my wife […]

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Kibbutz, Tel Aviv, Wailing Wall

I was watching Wheel of Fortune recently. It was one of the puzzles where you have to use the words to figure out where the clues are talking about.
The words were:

Kibbutz
Tel Aviv
Wailing Wall

And there was one other that I can’t remember right now.
Along the way, the guy who won the puzzle happened to pick […]

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Creating a Healthy Family

As you may know, I work for the YMCA, where our tag line is We Build Strong Kids, Strong Families, Strong Communities. But building strong families as a job is different from building a strong family under my own roof.
I hate to admit this but I have been known to leave the healthy environment […]

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