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Take Me Out to the Crowd
Last weekend, we took Ethan (age four) to a Bees game, which is the minor league team here in Salt Lake City. He and I were bonding over our love of hot dogs. He asked if he could get one for dinner at the game. “You have to get a hot dog at a baseball game,” I said. “Anything else would be un-American.” My boyfriend, Matt (Ethan’s dad), didn’t agree. “You two enjoy that,” he said, wrinkling his nose at the thought of overpriced and nitrate-loaded junk food. “I’m getting something else.” “Is it because you want the terrorists to win?” I asked sarcastically. Before I could add “Why do…
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Going For Gold
My sisters and I are throwing a party for my parents in a few weeks. They are celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary. I am looking through hundreds of photos because we thought it would be nice to have a slide show going in one corner of the reception hall (for optional viewing of course; nothing kills a party like a mandated slide show). I have been struck by how difficult it is to find photos of the two of them together. Of course, there are some. But most are photos of them doing their own things, or one of them posing with the kids and grandkids. Now, I know…