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Last weekend, Dan graduated from Tulane for a second time- this time from grad school. We are getting to be old hands at this! And since Billy will be going there this fall for his graduate degree, we will get another family trip - hopefully everyone, as scattered around the country as they are, will be able to make it. Ellen Degeneres spoke at the graduation. She is probably more comfortable with herself then anyone I know. The graduation ceremony was as they should be....a celebration complete with a New Orleans Jazz band, and fireworks. We never went on any formal vacations when the kids were little. Maybe because Bruce and I didn't as kids either. More likely cause we couldn't afford it. Everyone grew up fine without the trips to Disneyland, or wherever else people seem to think their kids need to go to be well rounded. Our kids didn't even get to go to daycare, the poor things! An acquaintance of mine once commented to me (she isn't really gifted in the art of ta

Last night I had a dream that I got a tattoo on my right thigh. It was just the word "unpredictable". The word had a funny symbol above one of the letters, which my daughter was concerned about. She said the symbol was in the wrong place. She didn't seemed alarmed or curious about the tattoo or what it meant. I have no idea what it meant. I have no idea why I dream the things I dream either. Like the tattoo, it is all unpredictable, which is maybe what it meant after all.

I dialed my mom's old phone number just for old times sake. I heard the usual message that one hears when a phone has been disconnected. I thought it would be cool to hear a message that said "The mother you have called is no longer in service. If you believe you have dialed the right mother, please hang up and call again". It would have been funny if it happened but more funny and miraculous if my mom had answered and said "Hi Donna Raye, how's my sweet baby girl?". Today when we were running at 6 AM and it was so nice and light outside and we were both sneezing because of the good pollen smells and we saw a fawn, we talked about dead friends we remembered from high school. I thought of Peter, the guy who sat next to me in chemistry. I had asthma really bad in high school and at that time they used isuprel inhalers until they found out that people dropped dead unexpectedly from them. The inhaler had an alcohol propellant. I tried to hide the fact