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we can burn brighter than the sun
It’s so weird to me how, during any given week nothing much seems to change. But when I drop out of life to go be near where the land broke apart eons ago, I come back to a home that seems to have...
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for what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun?*
* Tip o’ the hat to Khalil Gibran, whose words have always felt just right. The baby started playing baseball five years ago, when he was but a wee thing. BRB, weeping. As luck would have it, he’s had...
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too big for his britches
The other morning, when the weather was all, “And now…AUTUMN!” the baby and I stood in his room digging through a bin of last year’s school clothes. We were looking for a pair of pants that would fit....
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and now we’re here…
The husband and I are at an age where we’re attending weddings fairly regularly. We had three this year and have at least one on deck next year. I can’t say that I’m too irritated about it. I really...
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the ever turning wheel of life
I recently lamented on Twitter (twit-mented? lamentweed?): Literally every weekend for the past month or so has been outstanding. Downside is that they’re making Mondays increasingly brutal. #fb —...
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about your birthday
Hey buddy! Today is your 11th birthday! Every year it gets harder and harder for me to believe how big you’re getting. This past year, especially, you’ve turned on to so many cool things and...
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no one is saying the right things
I used to blog on LiveJournal and I would post there every single day, often multiple times a day. This was before Twitter or Facebook, where I could deposit brief thoughts and this was also before I...
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there would be no childlike faith, then, no poetry, no romance to make...
I always look forward to the break that we get from school and work at the end of the year. Nothing all year tops the nearly two weeks that I get to spend mostly at home and with my family. This year,...
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he-he-hello!
I don’t know where to begin. How about, “Hi?” Hi! When last we spoke, we were stuck in the depths of winter. And now it’s June, my favorite month, and everything is different. I had started to feel...
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the 12 days of july
I mentioned to the sister-in-law when she was in town over the 4th that perhaps one of the reasons that American society shifted to quick, cheap, processed foods is the fact that kids can be ungrateful...
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