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Mark's World - And Welcome to It: We hurt and are very tired...
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Mark's World - And Welcome to It. Musings and missives from my world - and my life in Ohio! Friday, December 07, 2012. We hurt and are very tired. No new pictures – yet! Just reporting in to note we have just about survived our madcap day. It was kind of like moving into a new home. You just didn't know where everything was going to go or how it would fit! Mostly, things are a mess right now. But after 12 hours, we are getting closer! Mark M. Sweetwood. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). And, were back!
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Mark's World - And Welcome to It: December 2011
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Mark's World - And Welcome to It. Musings and missives from my world - and my life in Ohio! Monday, December 05, 2011. Our "Christmas Story" Adventure. Mary and I have visited two historical homes in Ohio over the years: The Thurber House in Columbus and, now, the Cleveland house used in the holiday classic film "A Christmas Story.". In both cases, things didn't exactly go according to plan. Then, through a fence behind the museum, we could see a guy who was cleaning up after his dog in the museum's back...
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Mark's World - And Welcome to It: October 2010
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Mark's World - And Welcome to It. Musings and missives from my world - and my life in Ohio! Sunday, October 31, 2010. Scenes From A Wedding. We just flew - by car - back from my brother Eric and his bride Jen's wedding in Illinois. It was an event to remember! We had a blast and it was a jam-packed three-day weekend. In fact, between Mary and I, we shot hundreds of pictures. I have nine to share before I collapse into bed. Mary and I in front of the church. What a well-dressed, dignified couple! I carefu...
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Mark's World - And Welcome to It: September 2010
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Mark's World - And Welcome to It. Musings and missives from my world - and my life in Ohio! Sunday, September 26, 2010. I know what you are thinking: What a nice, old black-and-white photo of Dick Butkus that Mark has put on his long-ignored blog as part of his anti-Packer, pre-Monday Night Football frenzy. As I discovered when I lived in upstate New York, sometimes the best place to be a Chicago Bears fan is far away from Chicago. I could find them in the discount bins. In front of a turf background and...
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Mark's World - And Welcome to It: January 2011
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Mark's World - And Welcome to It. Musings and missives from my world - and my life in Ohio! Monday, January 24, 2011. TONIGHT'S SPECIAL COMMENT: "Words". Keith Olbermann has the night off. As promised earlier, here is tonight's Special Comment on words:. All this backtracking today about Jay Cutler's heart and/or toughness would not be necessary if folks on Twitter, Facebook, et al, all had editors. Hi I'm Mark. I'm an editor. And then you call them on their invective. And they squirm. A person on Twitte...
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Mark's World - And Welcome to It: June 2011
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Mark's World - And Welcome to It. Musings and missives from my world - and my life in Ohio! Sunday, June 26, 2011. Clyde and the Great Outdoors. CLYDE ON MY LAP OUTSIDE SUNDAY NIGHT. Clyde our cat continues to have good days and bad days. Today was a good day, and so he decided to go for a walk. Like today. We have been coaxing him to keep his strength up by alternating water and milk and small meals of chicken and cat treats. Mary had left the door to our bedroom open and, somehow, Clyde had made it dow...
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Mark's World - And Welcome to It: October 2011
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Mark's World - And Welcome to It. Musings and missives from my world - and my life in Ohio! Tuesday, October 11, 2011. Did you ever open up a package, confident of the contents, only to be stunned? I mean really, really, jaw-droppingly, life-in-slow-motioned stunned? Opening the mailer, I was, for lack of a better word (hence it's third use), stunned. It was a copy of "Sweetness," the controversial, new Jeff Pearlman book about Walter Payton. My first thought: Did Amazon screw up somehow? I don’t c...
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Mark's World - And Welcome to It: November 2012
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Mark's World - And Welcome to It. Musings and missives from my world - and my life in Ohio! Sunday, November 25, 2012. As this is the 10-week anniversary of the beginning of the crisis, I can just now write about this with a dispassionate perspective. Mary is contributing as well to make this a true team effort. Mary and I – along with Sammy and Pal Joey – were put out of our house after a roofing error left three of our four floors damaged by water from a rainstorm back in September. It was going behind...
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Mark's World - And Welcome to It: THE RISING
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Mark's World - And Welcome to It. Musings and missives from my world - and my life in Ohio! Thursday, December 06, 2012. When we last checked in on the Sweetwoods, the shock had set in, our home's main floor was gutted and we were displaced. State Farm sent an adjuster, but he quickly called in the major claims adjuster. I heard "major claims" and asked what that meant. "You are probably looking at a $70,000, $80,000 claim once this is done," I was told. From Kelly, our hero from State Farm, we got one o...
