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Patty Luzzi | Time for some scary fun
It was the year of the yard waste. Our trash collection company had delivered spanking fresh green toters…
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A ‘marker’ can bring people together
When you play a board game, there’s often a marker that becomes “you” for the duration of the…
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Patty Luzzi | Becoming Eye-tal-yun
Becoming Eye-tal-yun He was born in Italy, but spent most of his life in Butte, Mont. After his…
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Patty Puzzi | Predicting earthquakes
I always tell people that I can predict earthquakes. I’ll tell you how I do it at the…
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Patty Luzzi | Looking up into the sky
July 20, 1969. It was a perfect summer Sunday under Montana’s Big Sky. After church and a quick…
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Patty Luzzi | How to kill your marriage
My brain has an automatic shut-off switch when I hear the phrase “all you have to do is.”…
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Patty Luzzi | The time of the ‘wolf’
I was going through some boxes yesterday, looking for God-knows-what. Really now, only God knows what I was…
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Patty Luzzi | No time off from plants, planting
A few weeks ago, Lenny and I cashed in his frequent flyer mileage, and we ran off to…
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Patty Luzzi } What’s a mother to do?
I was afraid for her very lifeline. She didn’t have the experience to know that it wasn’t evolved…
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Patty Luzzi | Living life on Twitter – but why?
Last weekend, Lenny organized the garage, cleaned out the gutters, trimmed the wisteria, and hauled a cedar chest…
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Patty Luzzi | For now, it’s all about sacrifice
Since September, when the shadow of depression crossed over the world, when banks and companies, large and small,…
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Patty Luzzi | A beagle, those howls, and a life
It was the Advent of Christmas 1996. Our son John, age 13, had a well prepared list of…
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Patty Luzzi | A day to gather together
The old Mervyn’s building near Alderwood Mall has been transformed into something called “H Mart.” Lenny and I…
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Patty Luzzi | Springtime stimulus package
Last week we encountered Part One of a stimulus package. It’s not sufficient to solve all our woes,…
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Patty Luzzi | Trusting my memory has its limitations
Normally I have a pretty good memory, and I constantly preach to other women that they have to…
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Patty Luzzi | The colorful patchwork of America
I come from a patchwork neighborhood, in a patchwork town. Oh, sure, Butte, Montana had a reputation, verified…
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Patty Luzzi | A lost Christmas, but a happy Thanksgiving
Lenny and I have been asking each other if Christmas happened yet. We both worked long hours throughout…