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Her door was always open. Especially when we needed to talk about challenging subjects. And the truth is...this hap-


pens all over the world with all families with diff erent circum- stances of course. Moms are the center and the balance. She is strength & she is tenderness. She can seem harsh at times in periods of lessons. As a older guy in my 50’s (not old, just older) she still is there, and al- ways is mom...no matter what. I have a promise that is within my heart: that, since she took


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care of me and helped me to see the world and a place of endless possibilities and opportuni- ties that I will make sure she is taken care of as time progresses in life. Because of her, I am here, alive


& well. I am thankful that she never gave up on me. So, Mom, Deanna, Dee...thank you and know that you are loved and always will be! Your son, Paul


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Healdsburg, CA. ~


change things. Okay, no big revelation there. But it’s just one of those facts we know but until we actually have children we don’t really know.


I remember one of my brothers saying, “Well, when we have kids it won’t change us.” At the time I smiled to myself and I thought of saying something to him but…what the hey, until you know you don’t really know... I didn’t want to get into it with him. Several major


things changed right away in our household. I’m the type that I fi rst have to straighten out the clutter before I can sit down at my desk. I should say I used to straighten out the clutter. With two children our house always appears cluttered and my desk, well, what desk. Once my daughter started fi rst grade we appeared to be one desk short.


Change Things


Kids


by Gabriel A. Fraire ~ gafraire@comcast.net Kids


I truly believe any student should have their own space in which to study (to form good study habits). So, that’s how I lost my desk.


But it wasn’t just changes for me. My wife comes from a family that never leaves a dirty dish in the sink, would die rather than have an unmade bed and no one even thinks of squeez- ing the toothpaste tube


from any-


where but the bot- tom.


Hahaha, had to have a little laugh.


None of those requirements are currently being met in a house- hold with two small children. So, things do change. But the best change is the fact that now I have two little people in my life who unconditionally love me and I them with so much of my heart that sometimes it feels like my heart might explode. Yes, things change. But it has been the best change of my life.


T ese columns are excerpts from the book Daddy I Need to Go


Potty by Gabriel A. Fraire. Fraire has been a writer more than 40 years and is the current Literary Laureate of Healdsburg. He can be reached through his website: gabrielfraire.com


“It’s a lemon entry, my dear Watson.”


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“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.” ~ Robert A. Heinlein Weird Facts & Fun Trivia - 2


In 1959 Utah named the Beehive as the offi cial State Emblem.


The state grass of Utah is Indian ricegrass. It was eaten by Native Americans and early pioneers.


The largest snail in the world is about 91 centimeters in length.


The Beatles’ fi rst band name was The Quarrymen. They also briefl y changed their name to Johnny and the Moondogs.


JOKES & Humor # 3


Sherlock Holmes turned to Dr Watson and announced: “The murderer lives in the house with the yellow door.”


“Good grief, Holmes,” said


Watson. “How on earth did you deduce that?”


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