Doing

April 8, 2013

Ack. I can’t believe I’ve been writing here so infrequently! As always, there are reasons, but what’s more boring than a blogging apologizing for not blogging? Shit. Anyhow. So, I’ve been busy. I’ve been working on a writing project that is on a topic I knew little about before a couple weeks ago (performance marketing), [...]

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Springing Forward

April 2, 2013

I’m listening to a collection of arias and duos from Handel, and I feel soothed by the soaring voices and the gentle melodies that are the hallmark of Handel. I’m finding, lately, that I need the soothing. Things are generally pretty good, yet I find myself letting my mood get darkened by outside stuff that [...]

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Covering The Past: A Guest Post From My Sister Diana

March 28, 2013

Recently Diana and I were chatting on Facebook, and she mentioned that she wanted to get a tattoo of a Phoenix. I thought that was funny because it makes the seventh or eighth weird little thing we’ve discovered we have in common; I’ve long wanted to get a tattoo of a Phoenix along with a [...]

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Blooming

March 26, 2013

Today my mom confessed to her occupational therapist that she’s bored  (she’s got PT and OT visiting the house about three times a week). She’s been reading about a book a day lately, as well as hanging out with me for the TV shows I watch in the evenings after Tori’s in bed (yes, I’ve [...]

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Six and Three Quarters

March 20, 2013

My darling Tori Anne, It’s been a year since I’ve written you one of these letters. As we sit on the cusp of your being seven, I am overwhelmed with the fierceness and power of your personality; you are so fully your own person now I feel like your stories are not mine to tell [...]

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My “Sister Wives”

March 17, 2013

The other night I was out to dinner with some local friends, and someone told an amazing story. “My grandmother,” she said, “had this group of women that she had coffee with every day. They used to rotate through each others houses after the kids had gone to school. But they started to notice that [...]

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Blessed

March 12, 2013

I’m sitting at my desk listening to an early Joan Baez album because that music makes my mom happy (also, God bless Spotify; best $10 I spend a month). Earlier today, my mom went down to the basement to bring up a small bookcase for her room upstairs. I just want to pause there for [...]

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Sunshine and Happy Faces

March 11, 2013

This was one of those weekends where the whole world pours outside to dance in the weak early spring sun. It was 55 degrees and sunny even though it’s only mid-March. We’ve had a mild winter yet again but that has done nothing to dampen our longing for spring. There was a time when a [...]

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Oh, really, fucking Arkansas?

March 7, 2013

You’ll have to forgive this, but I wrote about my reaction the new abortion ban in Arkansas over at The Uppercase Lowdown. Hope you’ll go over and give it a read, although much of it is very familiar to you long time readers. Thanks in advance.

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A Faith That Fits: A Guest Post by Monica Wesolowska

March 6, 2013

I’m tight on deadlines this week, so I’m grateful that Monica offered this amazing piece about the loss of her son and her struggles with faith. It’s incredibly compelling, but there is definitely a trigger warning regarding child loss. My neighbor Sharon once arrived in my kitchen with a book of “comforting faiths.” This was [...]

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WTF, Flu?

March 5, 2013

This is a sponsored post. Seriously, you guys, “What the Flu!” In a desperate attempt for me and my husband to avoid the flu, we were recently using up our Clorox Disinfecting Wipes and hand sanitizer at a speed never before seen in our house. We’ve always been pretty relaxed about germ fighting in our [...]

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The Wait Has Just Begun

March 4, 2013

My mom came home on Saturday morning. It was kind of a rough re-entry; we had an event at Tori’s school, and after we got her settled we were gone for a couple of hours – only to come home with an extra kid for a long-planned sleepover. Luckily Tori’s friend E is just the [...]

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