Sweet sleep

July 14, 2008

“Hug, Mommy,” she says in her thick, sleepy voice. Her arms reach up to me, and she smiles with her eyes closed. We hug. “Yay,” she whispers as she falls back onto the pillow and into easy, untroubled sleep. Girl has migrated from her room and into bed with me while I’m still awake, and […]

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Things you do after you lose the house

July 12, 2008

The author in no way endorses the following behaviors. As to whether she has indulged in any of them herself, she admits nothing. Here are some things you might do in the days after you find out you’re not getting the house you really, really wanted. Don’t you think this calls for bullet points? Play […]

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The shoe drops

July 10, 2008

Lovely, perfect Stupid house. I didn’t want it anyway. Hey, guy at the bank! Yeah, you. You know how you screwed up and didn’t include our final offer on the house along with all the others when you and your little committee were making your decision? And then you told the other people that they […]

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The middle

July 8, 2008

Middle age. I’ve been circling around the label like it’s one of those “Hello, My Name Is” stickers, discarded and just lying there on the ground, left behind by someone who has already moved on into the next demographic. Keeping an eye on it in case it makes any sudden moves. If a gust of […]

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My alarm clock

July 7, 2008

I don’t know why I would want to wake up slow and easy on a summer morning, at my leisure, when I can (and do) wake up to this sound. Against the stucco on the side of my house. Right outside my bedroom. At 6 o’clock. And the little bastard doesn’t even make me coffee. […]

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Try a byte of this

July 6, 2008

You may have noticed a button in my right sidebar that looks like this: ChapterBytes is a book writing project in which each author on the list, in turn, writes a chapter that jumps off from the one before. In the end, we’ll have a finished book-length work of fiction. When I was approached to […]

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Wanted: Farm People

July 5, 2008

My friend W told me yesterday that the children of another friend are spending a few weeks at their grandparents’ farm in upstate New York. They visit every year in the summer and, from all reports, have the time of their lives. Their mother delivers them to the farm and spends a few days there, […]

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In the mood to nosh

July 3, 2008

What is Blog Nosh Magazine? It’s a buzz-worthy new ezine that features the best archived posts that may have fallen off the front page of your blogs, but that you would love for the world to get another chance to see. Blog Nosh’s channel editors look for the best archived posts to feature on one […]

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It's not the heat, it's the humility

July 2, 2008

The migraine has gone off, whimpering, into its corner, where I hope it will stay for ages and ages. Thanks for all the nice words and feel-betters yesterday! I know at least one other Arizona blogger has mentioned how hot it is here (I’m thinking of Ann at Velvet Lava. Be sure to go read […]

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migRAINe, migRAINe, go away

June 30, 2008

My heart goes out to people who suffer from migraine with any regularity. I only get one about once every month or two. Today, you would have found me laid out with a washcloth over my eyes, only moving when I had to, and with two children buzzing around me like bees. Except louder. And […]

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