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Daily Archive: July 21st, 2008

Your Voice: July 21

by Citizen Wausau on July 21st, 2008 • 2 Comments »

Welcome, one and all.  It was a relatively quiet week in the CW personal blogs section, though perhaps that’s because there were so much great front-page submissions.  Here are just a few of the highlights from the past week in the blogs:

•    Jill Knetter writes about being maid of honor at her mother’s wedding.  She has some conflicting emotions, and some very personal but also rather universal thoughts about marriage and family.

•    Andy Laub looks back at the just-closed WCT performance of Over the River & Through the Woods, in which he played the lead. And he looks …

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The Rights of Smokers

by Cheryl Mathis on July 21st, 2008 • 30 Comments »

Before dinner last night, my little family and I went to Schofield FunDays to have some community time. We basked in the boyish bliss of the bounce house and giant inflatable slide until our delight was tainted by the actions of one woman on the playground.

As a way to lure our toddler son away from the rides, we promised him some playground time at the school playground near where we had parked. I ran around with Ben, taking too many pictures of him as usual, and Chris stayed on a bench with Baby Anna.

A woman with children came to join …

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