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Tuesday, April 12, 2016

accidents, injuries, and mom panic

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Three weeks ago MadMax was up at our local ski resort and he did one more three-sixty on his last run of the day before heading home. He fel...
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Friday, April 8, 2016

7ToF: the world's gonna wake up and see / Baltimore and me

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1. Since I seem to have lost my enthusiasm for fiction these days, I've been reading memoirs. There are so many good ones out there you ...
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Tuesday, April 5, 2016

you wouldn't know me with this golden glow, soakin' up sun in Mexico

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We returned from Mexico on Sunday. We don't usually do major vacations for spring break, but it's our last one with our last kid, so...
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Tuesday, March 1, 2016

if I knew what I was doing I'd be doing it right now

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As you can tell, I've been desperately scraping the bottom of the bin for post ideas. I thought it would only last a week or two and I s...
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Friday, February 26, 2016

7ToF: my heart hurts

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1. Andrea's memorial service was today (Thursday). It was a lovely mix of memorable and heartwarming and absurd. And sad. But also joyfu...
Tuesday, February 23, 2016

tiny brief update

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I'm trying to get back into the habit of posting on Tuesdays and Fridays, but it's not going very well, is it? Not helped any by the...
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Friday, February 19, 2016

7ToF: End of Winter drag

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1. I spent last weekend in Texas for my amazing mom's 80th birthday. The weather wasn't all that great--by some odd meteorological c...
Wednesday, February 17, 2016

a placeholder for Andrea

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Insert here a beautifully written, elegiac post for my dear friend Andrea , who has battled brain cancer for four+ years. No one ever kno...
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Friday, February 5, 2016

7ToF: my kid likes pride and prejudice

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1. My eighteen-year-old would rather ski or hunt or play golf or stick needles under his fingernails than read these days, although he enjoy...
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Tuesday, February 2, 2016

mid-life transitions: the cog feeling

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I've talked to two women in the past few days about being in our mid-fifties. Each of us is in a unique situation, but I'm not sure ...
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