Things I’ve Learned

This is the way I keep the books

June 22, 2011

Confession: I’m a wee bit of a control freak.  Which would explain why I’m the one responsible for the household bookkeeping.  I have been using the same method to balance the budget since I was sixteen years old and moved in with Torri’s dad right before she was born.  In fact, Torri’s dad was the [...]

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9 Best Things We Bought in 2010

February 20, 2011

It’s that time again.  Tax time, that is.  I’ve yet to do mine, but the ever mounting stack of tax forms accumulating in my “Taxes 2010″ manila folder tells me that I should get to it.  Soon. The looming chore of it got me thinking about where our money was spent last year.  And whether [...]

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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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On A Life Uncommon

September 12, 2010

As far as weeks go…the last one wasn’t particularly high-ranking in my book.  Jeff was out of town again (Orlando, this time), which is never fun.  And while he was gone I had a run-in with a 60-something Hellians Angel who–I kid you not–very purposefully threw his ABC gum at my car.  ABC, as in, [...]

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Scars

August 10, 2010

My house has scars. Yours probably does, too. We had this house built from the ground up.  For weeks (that lingered into months) I labored over decisions and agonized over choices that–in the grand scheme of things–don’t matter much: corian or granite, maple or cherry, Plush or Berber. At the time, I couldn’t help but [...]

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Movie Moments

July 14, 2010

The other morning–amidst a mess of paint rollers and ladders and drop cloths in my bedroom–I sat against the wall, eating a bowl of yogurt for breakfast.  Jeff sat directly across from me, eating his own bowl of yogurt.  Together, we admired the work we’d accomplished while letting out a collective sigh, considering how much [...]

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Making The Grade

November 17, 2009

Each and every year I run into a dilemma in trying to decide what to give the teacher for Christmas.  Or teachers, as the case may be.  It’s a predicament.  Because I honestly don’t know enough about each one personally to be able to give something that is unique to her tastes.  And then, of [...]

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