Sky a vibrant blue. So bright that it makes your Whole face squinch up. Only hours before… All gray. Wet. Cold. And hours from now, Gusts will scud feathery Clouds across the blue. Wind rocking oaks and pines. Saplings and pillars of 100 years, And some will fall. But for now, a lull. Aching beauty, [...]

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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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Christmas Eve. It’s raining here, loud enough to hear on the roof, even over the TV. Bob the Dog is curled up on the Christmas rug in front of the fireplace. He thinks I put it there for HIM. Callie the Dog has already retired to her foam cushion in our bedroom. Tonight Charlie fixed [...]

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Hey Bloggy Friends! Long time no see. This week has been a crazy-busy. Plus I’ve been fighting off a downward spiral of self-doubt. You know those days when you feel inadequate at everything you do? Throughout the week, I’ve come up with a laundry list of areas where I’m clearly sub-par: I’ve felt like an [...]

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The hummingbird feeder froze yesterday. In place of red sugar water, we looked out to cloudy pink sugar ice. It sparkled in the clear cold sunlight. A frozen feeder isn’t really a problem here in November. The summer hummers flew south weeks ago. (Guess we should take down the feeder, huh?) Oh, but over the [...]

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Yes, today is my birthday. Last night I was all set to write a whiny post about how my husband is thousands of miles away in England and I’m all alone taking care of three ungrateful little trolls and I have a dirty house and all I want to do is sit around all day [...]

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Today was a beautiful, peaceful day. The sun was shining, the breeze was blowing, and the house was quiet. The kids have been in school for three weeks now, and every day still feels like Christmas morning. Remember that commercial from Staples that they ran at the end of every summer? As the song “It’s [...]

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Happy Labor Day! I hope your three-day weekend has been relaxing. Mine ended up being challenging. So I’m at Publix Sunday when someone cuts in front of me in the pharmacy line. “Have y’all seen a cell phone here?” a heavyset woman my age asks the pharmacist in a thick Southern accent. “I only been [...]

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Okay. Here I sit with second-novel syndrome – after one blog post. The handful of comments I received (on my Facebook page) were positive. Most commented on what I said about manna, which I’d considered a kind of throwaway analogy. So I seem to be on the right track. Good, right? Well, yeah. But here’s [...]

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