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Louise R. Shaw
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As soon as I saw her, I thought I had her figured out: a beauty queen, hair perfectly coiffed, make-up, clothes and size all perfect, life of pampering, confident and ambitious.
Apr 29, 2013 | 0 | 3 |
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It’s not worse than it’s ever been. We don’t need to give up hope or lose faith in our fellowman.
Though it’s impossible not to wonder what is going wrong when so many disenfranchised young men ...
Apr 13, 2013 | 0 | 2 |
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I had always wanted to get a picture of those incredible sun rays that burst from a cloud or break through fog.
Once or twice on a foggy day, I’d chase around, trying to find an angle that woul...
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I was already pretty old when I called the Davis Clipper four years ago and Tom Busselberg answered the phone.
I told him I had a degree in journalism but hadn’t used it for journalism in 28 ye...
Mar 19, 2013 | 0 | 2 |
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One of these days it might be necessary to admit to myself that it is becoming ever more likely that I will never be entirely fluent in French.
Despite the workshops, the workbooks, the CDs, the...
Feb 24, 2013 | 0 | 2 |
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It was a long night, what with dodging lava flows one minute and canoeing through a maze of little cottages the next.
And when I woke up, my dreams had brought me a new appreciation for my real...
Feb 09, 2013 | 0 | 2 |
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We’re getting sidetracked, America. We’re getting redirected to the insignificant periphery. Our attention is being drawn to the gossipy side story and away from what really makes a difference, wh...
Jan 22, 2013 | 0 | 2 |
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From another’s perspective, it’s possible to see things you may otherwise have missed or learn things you might otherwise not even imagine.
My Somali friends told me about how soon children beco...
Jan 04, 2013 | 0 | 2 |
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Those dreaded three paragraphs: Not only do they mean you are dead, those three obituary paragraphs mean somebody tried to condense your life into a short collection of facts, with a few dates mix...
Dec 22, 2012 | 0 | 2 |
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The moments are fleeting. And sometimes they’re few and far between. But that’s just all the more reason to savor them. They’re moments when the world seems to stop for a minute. When everything...
Dec 08, 2012 | 0 | 2 |
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It’s no small task we give ourselves every Christmas.
Our goal for the holiday event is only just to make everyone in our sphere happy.
And so we spend the month decorating, shopping, baking, ...
Nov 22, 2012 | 0 | 2 |
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Though I hate to admit it, I must confess that sometimes I forget to be thankful my wrist doesn’t hurt.
Of all people, I should be grateful my wrist doesn’t hurt because it wasn’t all that long ...
Oct 26, 2012 | 0 | 3 |
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By Louise Shaw Clipper Staff Writer T here is an art to living in the moment. To being where you are and not drifting off to somewhere else.
And it’s an art I’m going to master. If it kills m...
Oct 19, 2012 | 0 | 2 |
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There’s no way I’d have enjoyed living in Paris in the early 1800s.
The depiction of the people in that place in those days, though done as a rip-roaring operetta, has led me to believe times t...
Oct 19, 2012 | 0 | 3 |
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If we were totally honest about our emotions, we’d all be wailing.
Not just the distraught babies in the arms of their distraught mothers on the long flights Р and the short flights that seem lo...
Oct 19, 2012 | 0 | 0 |
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The inspiration of the week came this week from a gentleman I met on the Kaysville garden tour.
He told me all the reasons he finds working in his yard relaxing and enjoyable, and I was inspired...
Oct 19, 2012 | 0 | 1 |
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When it happened the first time it was interesting. When it happened the second, it was beyond curious С it was noteworthy.
Thanks to some hard-working kids and kids-in-law, we attended two univ...
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There’s a little secret that might help the budding photographer or for that matter, just about anyone trying to capture a significant moment with a camera.
This is also for people like me who ...
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When you’re always in a hurry you end up missing things.
I know that because one time we were on a hike in the Tetons, heading up a pretty steep trail at a pretty steady clip, when finally someo...
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In case you’ve been distressed lately by news of soldiers and Secret Service members behaving badly, of bullies that do irreparable damage or of students behaving violently, of neighborhood watche...
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