Serious Stuff

Just One

December 6, 2010

I’m tempted, at times. Like when I’m making out my still need to buy list on an itty bitty 3 x 5 card and I don’t really have room to spell the whole thing out. Or when I make notes in  my checkbook register as to why I spent $87 at Old Navy. Quickly scribbled [...]

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The Grunion, They Run

November 17, 2010

When I was little my family used to go camping every Memorial Day weekend. We’d drive 70 miles up the coast until we reached our favorite spot of all: Plaskett Creek.  The sites there are grassy–some nestled right up against the woods.  Just across the highway is Sand Dollar beach.  Every year we’d pick up [...]

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Where I’m At

August 22, 2010

I decided long ago that I wanted to be a stay-home mom.  This–I decided–because more than anything, I wanted to spend my days tickling tummies and reading stories and bandaging the occasional boo-boo.  And I’ve done precisely that, for just shy of 16 years now. Of course, there are also sheets to wash and meals [...]

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The Tug

July 29, 2010

Sometimes my brain is frenzied, ideas and inspiration buzzing like the traffic on a just-drenched anthill. The never-ending birth of characters and the twists and turns of their puppet lives sometimes leaves me exhausted.  Spent. {Falling behind my} self-imposed writing goals and deadlines leaves me knotty inside.  Which would be easily remedied, of course, were [...]

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The Anniversary

July 15, 2010

Jayce crawled up into my lap this afternoon, curling up under my chin.  He let me smooth his hair, kiss his head.  And then: will you rock me in my rocking chair? Absolutely. An anniversary has been weighing on me all week.  The anniversary. We raced to his room (he insists on racing no matter [...]

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The Best Things

June 21, 2010

Like I was saying…the worst list is only half of the story.  As often happens, given time, beauty bloomed there–in place of the thorns that threatened to overtake me. {Some of} The Best Things: The loss of loved ones taught me, early on, that there is no forever, at least not here on Earth.  And [...]

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The Worst Things

June 17, 2010

Charles Dickens wrote: “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…” So right, he was.  I’ve been in a thoughtful mood today–a reflecting mood.  A blog post came to me in the midst of all that thinking.  Two blog posts, actually.  Two lists.  One: The Worst Things.  And two: The Best [...]

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