For richer or poorer: What we choose to share or not.

It’s been a long day, what with getting Monsieur Agbenou on the airplane back to Benin, and then it was ‘one of those days’ at work. Not bad really, just kind of mentally fatiguing.

Papa Huber really amazes me. We sat around the kitchen table at dinner last night, sort of catching up the last few things we all wanted to say. This man might not always have been the perfect husband, father or boss but the words that were coming out of his mouth were straight and true, without a hint of guile or pretense.

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Life is never dull at the Maven residence

Well, let’s see what’s going on: I got a job offer that eclipses the one I was actually angling for, and have accepted- thanks LC!; Natacha’s father is arriving tomorrow from Cotonou, Benin, Africa where he was the mayor. He doesn’t speak much English, my French dates back to high school and Natacha is busy with work and the TMCC mini semester which starts while Dad is here for three weeks. If the maven&meddler isn’t quite as content rich as usual, I hope you’ll understand.

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