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“Life is long.” 30 Jun 2012 | 03:23 am
I’ve let this field go fallow for a long time, but I hope you won’t mind if I lean over the fence to share this with you. My friend Emily wrote something very personal and important and needful, and ...
Through 24 Sep 2011 | 02:32 pm
{I wrote this just over two years ago and came across it again just now. Sometimes words can come back to haunt you, but sometimes they circle back around just when you need them.} The bedroom. Four ...
Picture 6 May 2011 | 05:02 am
Like my friend Emily who writes about her own poignant reasons here (go, read, I’ll wait), I won’t be posting a photo of my mother on Facebook this week, as so many of my friends have done in honor of...
The violets 28 Mar 2011 | 09:28 am
Yesterday when I heard there was snowfall in the forecast for the night, I looked out the back door at the mess of daffodils against the back fence, worried that the snow would kill the last of them b...
Ladybug 16 Feb 2011 | 03:04 am
photo credit: boxercab on flickr With a bit of effort, I nudge open the windows. It’s one of those days in February when the air feels more warm than cold, when the same 50 degrees that feels chilly ...
Migration 11 Jan 2011 | 04:24 am
photo credit: chesbayprogram, flickr So life still has a few surprises. A few months ago, we thought we were moving back to Arizona. We were all ready for that, except that the things that needed to ...
Reach 24 Nov 2010 | 08:00 am
Silver bowls sit beside each place at the table. They are old – that much I know. Monogrammed, too, and I somehow divine that they’re meant for soup. A detail that makes no sense, but then what do I k...
Happiness and a day with rain 17 Nov 2010 | 02:17 pm
If you asked what I think about happiness, I would have to say that it’s never been my natural default setting. That’s probably true for most of us, though I can only speak for myself and say that my ...
The Lazarus post 15 Nov 2010 | 01:48 pm
For fun this weekend, I broke my blog (making it disappear is no parlor trick and is about as frightening as it sounds), but thanks to the wonderful support staff at my web host, Site5,* it came back...
Notes on a napkin 14 Nov 2010 | 11:08 am
I love the idea of handwritten posts, mostly for the purity of pen to paper and no backspace key. (If you go to flickr and do a search, there are lots of them.) These are just some lines I scribbled ...
