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May 21, 2008

This may be my favorite passage, from anyone, about writing. I read it for the first time almost 10 years ago, and somehow have forgotten about it for long stretches at a time. I really should frame it and hang it above my desk. The passage is from Rilke’s only novel, The Notebooks of Malte […]

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I swear it was just doing it…

May 21, 2008

Have you ever taken your car to the mechanic to try to diagnose that funny little noise coming from under the hood, only when he got in the car with you to drive around and listen for it, the car wouldn’t produce the funny little sound? Today was like that here at the H household. […]

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More rope, please…

May 19, 2008

I need your help. See the rope in my hands and how I’m just barely hanging on to the end of it? See the end of it strain and fray as I grab on tighter? See it slip just an inch? The last inch? Here’s the thing…when it comes to knowing how to deal with […]

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The backseat diaries

May 18, 2008

Lately, I find that my left palm is often marked up with one or two word notes to remind me of something the kids have said that I want to remember (usually so I can write about it here). You’d think, as a writer, that I would always have paper on hand, but I don’t. […]

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The music

May 14, 2008

Next week is the last week of school around here, and there’s the usual small storm of activity and year-end school events. Tomorrow night, we will attend Boy’s Suzuki concert at school, where he will stand in the back row and play three songs on the violin with his classmates. I feel very lucky that […]

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A good day…

May 14, 2008

I’m off to Girl’s class with a cupcake cake. The kids with summer birthday are each assigned a day in May to celebrate their birthday in class, and today is her day. After that, I’m off to play poker. In the middle of the day. (gasp) Their dad will pick them up after school, and […]

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(Not) slaying the dragon

May 11, 2008

Yesterday afternoon, after discovering that in the month of April I earned exactly 1 cent from Google AdSense, I decided to investigate my ad options. Was there something more? better? brilliant? I could be doing to maybe earn 2 cents this month? Because by the end of the year, if I double my income every […]

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Performance Anxiety (my 100th post in 100 words): PG-13

May 9, 2008

This is my 100th time, and I’m nervous. It’s not as though I haven’t done this before, or that it doesn’t come naturally. (I have, and it does.) It’s just that, well…it’s a special night, and I feel a lot of pressure to make it memorable. Exciting. Fun. Something I haven’t tried before. And as […]

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A new road

May 8, 2008

For the last couple of years, most of the time since we’ve lived here in Arizona, the highway department has been building a section of the freeway loop connecting us to the rest of the metro area. The project will be finished soon (soon is relative–think months and maybe a year or more). My kids […]

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*If I could Twitter the best things running through my head today…

May 6, 2008

There’s another live version I like even better than this one, but I couldn’t find it online. I love Jack Ingram. _________________________________________________ You Will Hear Thunder You will hear thunder and remember me, And think: she wanted storms. The rim Of the sky will be the colour of hard crimson, And your heart, as it […]

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