As you can imagine, this week has felt a little bit full. With Callie Dog’s passing early Tuesday and keeping kids home from school so they could “grieve” (which looked an awful lot like playing and bickering and researching breeds for our NEXT dog), I had to spend Wednesday and today catching up. So I’ll [...]

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And yet ANOTHER way for me to bring the conversation around to bodily functions. I swear, I didn’t even try this time. So anyway, my fellow former Cali girl Wendy at Weight What? participated in a gr8 meme full of 8s. And since I’m totally l8 in getting a blog post out and, as f8 [...]

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You guys. I had an epiphany this week. Think you can handle it? It’s just as profound as you’d expect from me. Okay, here it is: The transition to summer is really hard once you have kids in school. I KNOW! Deep, am I right? You probably oughta write that down. Or quote me on [...]

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FINALLY. I finished an editing job this morning, and now I’m waiting for Charlie to take a look at it. So midafternoon, I turn my mind to blogging. With one problem: I don’t know what to write about. It’s rainy and dreary here today. The kind of day you want to spend sound asleep under [...]

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My outdoor table is covered with vegetable flats. Every shovel, rake, hoe, and pickax is up from the basement. Two trees and two shrubs in pots have taken up residence on my driveway. A few hours ago I followed muddy footprints from the backdoor to a pair of muddy shoes in the middle of the [...]

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