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Mama and the mess
I am sitting at the dining room table. I am joined by a dirty pot-bellied teddy bear, some books, a marker and pencil, a sippy cup, a Lego catalog, a Christmas card and a vase of roses commemorating...
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The next big thing
We returned home from a great day with family on the water, in the grass, on the patio, celebrating the Fourth of July, to our home smack dab in the middle of an Independence Day smack down. Our...
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Some I know, some I don’t (aka Monday afternoon)
They say to write what you know. So today, this is what I know: I know the path of the late afternoon airplanes over the neighborhood and the sound they make when the sky is clear. I know the July...
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Lazy circles
Yesterday afternoon, Kaiser drained most of the life out of me. Then the mall finished the job. Our long wait for the doctor’s appointment playing with germ-infested toys, then 30 minutes at the...
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A little r and r
I’m off for the week, taking some time to enjoy the summer with family and friends. May you find moments to play, laugh, sit, sip, feel the sun and water and know the good of a little rest. See you...
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When summer takes wing
In the words of my dad, I am a whirling dervish, twirling circles to tie ends undone by long summer days and trips away, dirt tracked in, bins of toys and rooms switched. I am laundry folding, basement...
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The first true night of summer
The other night I shocked myself by placing dinner on the table at a decent hour, and so we’d bathed and scooped out portions of homemade ice cream into plastic cups before the pressures of bedtime...
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Superhero powers required
My brain is brimming with things I want to talk to you about. It feels like a long time, and I miss you all. I am writing today with a quick check-in before I get a move on all the laundry piles and...
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The day after a road trip, a birthday and a summer update of sorts
Summer has gathered us up in the folds of her skirts and taken us for quite a ride. Most recently, across five states in eight days and more than 1,900 miles and then home, smack dab into the crepe...
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Morning rain
for day on day, clouds hang heavy, blanket of wool on sticky hours, people ask, when will it rain? say, we really need rain. say, it’s getting sorta scary all these days with no rain we, the people of...
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Standing on the rim of summer
We draw to the close of another school year, and I can’t decide if it feels like nine months have passed, or nine days. The way time suspends like a hammock, the way it marches forward like ants in a...
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Pouring out and the unexpected gurgling
I read of longing and desire from bed, covered in the quilt I brought from home and a rightly heavy down comforter. The walls are yellow like sun, and I am sick. Not the worst sick I’ve been in my...
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When grace is a hammock
Currently our thermostat reads 84 degrees. It could be worse. Outside, the temperature has risen to 102 — more than a bit jarring to our Northwest sensibilities. Lala and a friend play store...
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