We did it! We drove from Chicago to Plains, Georgia to attend Jimmy Carter’s Sunday School! There is so...
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Jimmy Carter’s Sunday School, Here We Come!
Lynn LaPlante Allaway, , Chicago, Family, Family Adventure, Mom, Pilgrimage, Crazy Ideas, Jimmy Carter, Jimmy Carter's Sunday School, Plains Georgia, Road Trip, Teaching Kindness, 2“Honey, I have a strange proposal that I promise is not as weird as it initially sounds, just hear...
Why I love this music: Orbert Davis and The Chicago Jazz Philharmonic
Lynn LaPlante Allaway, , Chicago, 60 Minutes, Auditorium Theater, Chicago Jazz Philharmonic, Classical, Cuba, Embargo, Jazz, Orbert Davis, Third Stream, 0Orbert Davis reprises his symphonic jazz work, first performed at the Havana International Jazz Festival in December 2014, in...
Halloween Then and Now
Lynn LaPlante Allaway, , Family, bobbing for apples, Costumes, Dorothy Hamill, Halloween, Halloween House, pumpkins, Trick or Treat, When I was your age, 0I’m going to sit here in my rocking chair on my front porch and take a break from churning...
Let’s All Point and Laugh at the NRA
Lynn LaPlante Allaway, , Chicago, Moms Demand Action, RisingForCharleston, 2016 Presidential Elections, Chiraq, Common Sense Gun Laws, Everytown for Gunsense, Gun Sense in America, Gun Violence, Mass Shooting, Moms Demand Action, Nelson from the Simpsons, NRA, Single Issue Voter, Whatever It Takes, 1Another mass shooting but I am loathe to mention this most recent one by name, since if I leave...
Let’s all be more like Tom. Or Edna. #AmWriting
Lynn LaPlante Allaway, , Family, Moms Rule, Writing, AmWriting, Be Yourself!, Beth Finke, Chill Mom, doing what you want, finding courage, Good Enough, Growing Up, nagging, On Writing, Perfection is the Enemy of the Good, Perfectionism, Safe and Sound, SCWBI, Writer's Block, Writer's Critique Group, Writer's Group, 8Oh, how I love writing! Especially when I have something funny I want to write about. Or something poignant!...
Back To School: I’m not ready! Yes, I am. Wait, no I’m not! Wait, yes, I am!
Lynn LaPlante Allaway, , Family, Moms Rule, Stockholm Syndrome, Back To School, End of School, Homework, Moms, pool, Puppies, Stockholm Syndrome, Summer, Summertime, 0Back to School: I hate it. I hate the end of summer. I hate the start of school. Am...
Let’s Get Physical!
Lynn LaPlante Allaway, , Chicago, Pregnancy, Uncategorized, Al Gore, Exercise, Laird Hamilton, North Avenue Beach, SUP, 10Ever since I started writing this blog, people have been asking, “when do you find the time to write?”...
All’s Fair in Love and Pets
Lynn LaPlante Allaway, , Family, Uncategorized, Anti-Cruelty Society, Cats, Happy Anniversary, Pets, Puppies, 4My daughter just finished up a summer camp at our county’s animal control department, working with pets who are...
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: How I KonMari’d My Butt Off
Lynn LaPlante Allaway, , Family, Cleaning House, Kondo-ing, KonMari, KonMari'd, Marie Kondo, The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing, 2So have you tried the KonMari Method? I have. I still am. After having lunch with a friend who...
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