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My sister just got a job with an elementary school (congratulations, Sister!). Part of her job is to help get the parents more involved with the school and their kids’ education.
I work as a communicator at a University. Part of my job is to help parents and alumni stay connected with the school, mostly (let’s [...]

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Took a sunset “photo cruise” tonight. Got a nice photo of this lighthouse. Very little editing here, this is pretty much the way it came out of the camera:

Ok, I added the seagull in Photoshop, but the rest is pretty much true to the scene.

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The kids have their costumes and they are ready for action!

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When upgrading memory (RAM) in a 1.8 GHz PowerMac G5 (Late 2004) model, you have to install the RAM chips in pairs. This I read on the site of the RAM vendor. So I bought a pair of 1GB chips.
However, what was not clear was that not only do you have to install in pairs, [...]

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Today I picked up my kids from school, which I don’t normally do. When I picked up Son from pre-K, his teacher was very enthusiastic about him. It turns out she had asked him to read aloud to his class today, not just one but three (or was it four?) books. She said the whole [...]

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Yesterday we attended an ice cream “funfest” sponsored by a local PBS station. Here the family poses next to two familiar PBS characters.

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I admit it, like Charlie Brown and Calvin, I have been known to heft a kite into the air just to see it fly.

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Highland Light (Cape Cod Light), in Truro, taken during our Cape trip in August. As I get better at this technique, it becomes clear that there is no need for a photo to have an empty sky, ever.

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This lighthouse sits in Boston Harbor, off Boston’s south shore and is accessible only by boat. It’s a truly awesome piece of engineering; the base of the lighthouse is completely submerged except during low tide. Visiting the lighthouse on a harbor cruise was an stunning experience. Unfortunately, on the day of my visit the weather [...]

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It’s always a rare treat when I can get them to pose together … even if Daughter does look grumpy here because I’m taking her photo.

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