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Odds & Ends
We went to our cabin this weekend, just for one night. It was the first time since October that the whole family was up together. The kids spent some quality time making a hole through the ice on the lake and tending the fire and playing Wii Sports Resort. I spent some quality time reading…
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Cats & Cadbury Creme Eggs & Contemplation
I did a meditation on positivity this morning. The guide instructed me to think of something that was going well for me right at that moment. The basement doesn’t smell like cat litter right now. After pondering this for a few minutes I was then instructed to think of something that might go well for…
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Homemaker
I was registering for an account on a website yesterday and they asked me for information about my occupation. There was an entire page of dropdown menus for filling in clarifying details about your job. I picked “homemaker” from the first dropdown and immediately every other question on the page vanished. Huh. No further questions,…
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Mondays
I tend to get a lot of tidying done on Mondays, mostly because Monday is grocery shopping day and grocery shopping is the worst. I would rather clean multiple toilets every day for the rest of my life than have to be in charge of meal planning, grocery shopping, and cooking. So I will spend…
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People Who Enjoy Cooking
People who enjoy cooking: would you consider yourself a morning person or a night person? I think part of my issue with cooking dinner every night is the timing. My energy level drops at about 4 PM every day. I get a slight boost around 7 PM but after that I am just DONE. I…
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Trying to stay rooted in the real world on this here blog.
I’m a little frustrated with how maudlin this blog has become, but I guess that’s where my mind is at these days. I’ve also been struggling to keep my posts rooted in the real world. I was going to write a whole post about my kid’s birthday sleepover and it was becoming a meditation on…
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Brave
My youngest and I have been going roller skating lately. I loved roller skating when I was a kid. I had my own pair of white roller skates with pink wheels, and I think my eighth or ninth birthday party was at a roller rink. I am incredibly unathletic, but I remember zooming around the…
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Sorrow & Joy & New York City
I have been struggling with how to write about the funeral last weekend. How to characterize all these experiences, all these emotions. I cannot do this topic justice, but I will try my best. The first thing to know is that New York City is still there, mostly just how I left it. I found…
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Poetry 101
Despite the content of my previous post, I actually do not like poetry. Poetry annoys me. Use full sentences, damnit! Paragraphs and punctuation are here to serve us, not constrain us. I often read poetry with my eyes narrowed in skepticism; smushing random words together with no structure does not make you insightful. But… Every…
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Poetry 1
Yesterday, a new experience:a painting made me cry.Three vibrant, precious blue eggssurrounded by a nest of chaos,grey, brown, jagged. My instinct to protect those little eggsbecause I always find them on the ground in the summer,broken,alone. Art doesn’t usually make me cry (or want to write poetry)but lately it’s all right there at the surface:joy,…