I had to say good-bye to my faithful companion, George a few weeks ago. It was as hard to say good-bye to him as it was my cat Toby, 7 years earlier. For those…
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I cleaned my closet, then I wrote this melodramatic sonnet in the style of Shakespeare. Place hand to brow & read it bombastically if you have ever been pregnant: Ode to my former waistline…
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I lost my day help over a month and a half ago. She would come around 9AM and leave around 1PM, do all my housework, some cooking and an occasional groceries run. She was…
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pregnancy & parenting relationships & love travel
Music, Forks and Life (or: How I Kissed Another Guy)
I don’t think the husband or I would admit to being overly romantic. We just (as in, last week) established a regular date night after 8 years of parenting. (I consider the years of…
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“Our behavior toward each other is the strangest, most unpredictable and most unaccountable of all the phenomena with which we are obliged to live. In all of nature, there is nothing so threatening to…