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knight spotting–Mormon Tabernacle Choir

Want to watch for the Knight in Shining Armor during Mormon Tabernacle Choir broadcasts? First, you’ll need to know what he looks like. Aww! Look! A strong, brave, and handsome knight indeed. Here he sits waiting for one of their many performances to begin. It will probably also help to know that he is the [...]

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good news

The Damsel has a little secret. In her other life, she pecks away at fiction writing–and has done so for quite some time. You might even say she’s a tad obsessed with it. Anyone observing the tracks of her sliding windows will quickly see her obsession isn’t deep cleaning. *ahem. Today she got some news [...]

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announcing a birth

Y’all know the Damsel loves babies. Human babies, lilac babies, even apple babies. But today is the birth of a different kind of baby: a shiny new blog. Not another of her own, oh no. The Damsel is done propagating for now. But you simply must click over to see Perfectly Lazy. The Damsel is [...]

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sometimes, the students teach the class.

The Damsel attended the Casual Bloggers’ Conference this weekend. While she was there she was fascinated, interested, anxious, terrified, curious, thirsty, jealous, touched and amused. She apologizes that despite the fact she lugged around a huge camera bag, she took No. Pictures. Whatsoever. She cannot explain this phenomenon. The Damsel learned a lot about how [...]

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spring break

The Damsel would like to apologize for not announcing ahead of time about spring break at the Old School. She kept hoping a miracle would happen and a spontaneous clone would form of herself. This did not happen. Sprog #3 got married. It happened! No one died! First we had this: Which became this: Weddings [...]

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rainy days

The Damsel hopes you’ll pardon a very personal post. A well-known saying by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow goes, “Into each life some rain must fall,” and it’s raining over here at the cottage by the mountains. Her grandson was born much too early. He was here for an hour or two and slipped back to heaven [...]

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merry christmas!

The warmest of old-fashioned Christmas wishes to you and all your dear ones. With love from The Damsel in Dis Dress and the whole family.

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a note from the faculty

This isn’t a typical Old School post, because there’s nothing here about doing things the old fashioned way. Not today. Instead: Today is the Damsel’s five year anniversary of being cancer free. This is a big, fat, ginormous landmark for her and she’s just gotta post it here. Five years ago this day was a [...]

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