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Overheard at . . . Home
"What do I do with all this stuff?"Anyone who has moved knows the joy of facing those left-over boxes piled in the garage, or attic, or basement. You know the ones... they've been dragged around from...
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Overheard at . . . School
“A pattern just has so much possibility.” This statement, by a friend who loves to sew, seemed counterintuitive to me. Doesn’t a pattern, by its very nature, restrict what can be done? Although I am...
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Overheard on . . . Today's News
“The video shows him being burned alive.” Nearly five hundred eighty-four years ago, on May 30, 1431, a nineteen year old girl was burned at the stake for heresy, after a church trial that was far...
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Overheard at . . . Green Lake
“I’m so “f”ing old that I’ll never get a boyfriend at this point.” What was particularly funny about this overhear was that the two girls walking by us on the path couldn’t have been more than 30...
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Overheard at . . . Kohls
“Enjoy the little things.” The escalator allowed me a perfect view of the two women comparing uplifting quotes on a line of t-shirts and sweatshirts hanging on the racks. I had gone into the...
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Overheard at . . . Our local natural foods market
“Are you okay?”“Nooo. ‘Cause I just found out my yogi is retiring.” Ohhhh, I so wish I could show you the emotion behind this woman’s quote. She was sweating and shakyy, her mouth in a tight line...
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Overheard at . . . Lake Tahoe
Mom: “Good job telling me you had to go to the bathroom.” Child: “Uh huh.” Mom: “Because do you remember last year when it was too late and they had to shut down the whole pool?” Hard to contain the...
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Overheard at . . . The Dentist
“People say all the time that I sound like Cinderella.” Can you imagine any more perfect job for someone who sounds like a Disney Princess, than being a kids’ dental hygienist? What child isn’t going...
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Overheard at . . . Camlann Medieval Village
“You are a traveler in our village, my Lady. You may wander as you like.” Many years ago, in the age before TripAdvisor and Yelp, there lived a family who would hear of an interesting land and, lo,...
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Overheard at . . . Middle School
“Ahhh. The noise of all the locker doors slamming at once. What a beautiful sound. I swear, it will never get old.” Meanwhile as a parent of a new student I was supposed to be chatting with some other...
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Overheard in . . . King Tut's Tomb
"You have got to be kidding me!”(Or, well, okay, something like that- only in Arabic and perhaps more graphic.)In case you haven’t heard, there are big things happening right now in King Tut’s tomb in...
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Overheard at . . . The new Amazon Store
“What a beautiful cover.” Here are a few of my favorite things in life:Ice CreamOlive trees in ItalyThe light at gloaming of the day in EnglandA book that is so engaging it can keep you reading all...
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Overheard at . . . CPK
“It is so lovely to see a family enjoying their time together.” I watched the woman walk out the restaurant doors, still feeling where she had placed her hand on my shoulder. I didn’t know whether to...
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Overheard . . . On my walk (In my own head.)
“It’s not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.” Erma Bombeck Today, as I was walking my nearly blind, and definitely deaf, dog, she literally ran...
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Overheard . . . While walking the dog
"Have a good afternoon Mrs. Wilsted."This was said by my local mailman down the block from my home. Immediately I felt the glow of being recognized. I thanked him... and hopefully he understood it was...
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Overheard at . . . Din Tai Fung
“Are you excited to eat the vegetable dumplings honey?” We, my daughter, my husband, and I, were wandering past the dumpling restaurant in our very nice local mall when I overheard this question...
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Overheard at . . . Curriculum Night
"It's been a lo-o-ng day. I've had to watch the Presidential Debate with my students six times over the course of the day."And you thought your work was difficult. Can you even imagine having to...
View ArticleIn honor of my new book, MOLYO MAYHEM, revisiting posts from Italy
Overheard at a Ristorante in Tuscany . . . (July 2011)It is made by my uncle.......apparently there is something about Tuscany that forces you to write lyrically.... It may be the wine, or perhaps the...
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In honor of the release of MOLTO MAYHEM- reposts from Italy
Overheard on . . . the roadside on the outskirts of FlorencePantomimed directions to Fiesole....I was reminded today, while unexpectedly driving a stick shift car through the center of Florence, of...
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Overheard in . . . 1900
"I am finding great solace in the poems of Emily Dickinson."We are not the first whose anxious, broken hearts have found words to comfort and condemn. Poetry was made for times like this. If I could...
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