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The Fortune Cookie Knows

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Normally, my girls and I eat out once a week.  It's on a day when we have something to do and won't be home until about 7ish.  This week, our schedule is a bit off so when the idea of cooking dinner last night came up, the three of us looked at each other and shrugged. We went out for Chinese, one of our usuals.  All was going well when the fortune cookies arrived. A's was pretty generic.  M's was philosophical.  I got the good one: "Now is the time to try something new."  I listened. Today I started my first (of many, I hope) class at Creative Metalworks School of Design.  The way this came about is odd - or usual for me.  I found a class of interest at Montgomery County but that was going to be a tough one to pull off.  So I remembered that about 10 years ago, we went to the White House Easter Egg Roll with a couple of other families - one of whom is a jeweler.  It took a bit to remember his name but I searched and found him. An email later, he