First light

March 2, 2009

Once, years ago, I had the chance to go turkey hunting. My soon-to-be husband, a hunter, offered to take me along. And I, wanting to prove myself in some way, said yes. (There’s a part of me—the Missouri in me—that likes rough, elemental things and knew this was something I didn’t want to miss. Though […]

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Soundtrack

February 26, 2009

Maybe you do this, too. When I find a new music artist I love, what usually follows is a long session of listening to the artist’s whole catalog, and then I download song after song, or whole albums. And nothing else gets done. Please tell me I’m not the only one who does this. Do […]

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Toward light

February 23, 2009

I should have written this Saturday night, but I couldn’t quite get there. You know how it is when you’re really craving good cheese or strawberries or (let’s face it) Doritos, but you can’t bring yourself to drive to the store? So you decide that maybe you can hold off until tomorrow? It was like […]

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Be careful

February 18, 2009

I hear the words rise easy and worn to my lips. Be careful. My boy climbs the sloped trunk of the tree in front of our house.  A monkey, a scout, Tarzan. My girl follows, more timid, a stuffed unicorn tucked under one arm, and I say it again, louder. Be careful. Up the trunk, she eases […]

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Be careful

February 18, 2009

I hear the words rise easy and worn to my lips. Be careful. My boy climbs the sloped trunk of the tree in front of our house.  A monkey, a scout, Tarzan. My girl follows, more timid, a stuffed unicorn tucked under one arm, and I say it again, louder. Be careful. Up the trunk, […]

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Windows

February 12, 2009

(This post first appeared almost exactly a year ago.  I’m hoping you won’t mind if I dust it off.) Last night, I spent some time looking through the files on my computer, hoping to stumble across something that would inspire me to write a post. Maybe a scrap of prose that never quite found a […]

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Wish you were here: a postcard

February 11, 2009

First, I want to thank everyone for your reassuring, thoughtful, concerned  comments on my last post. If the world was filled with people like all of you, things like this just wouldn’t happen. You overwhelmed me with both the number and the strength of your words. Thank you, from the bottom of my heart. It […]

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Lost

February 8, 2009

This one will take as long as it takes, but it’s important. A few nights ago, my doorbell rang and I opened the door to find a few adults standing there, along with a little girl and a dog. “Do you know who this girl belongs to? I found her wandering by herself by the […]

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I don't think this was what she meant…

February 5, 2009

…when Marilyn Monroe said, “Who said nights were for sleep?” I’m really not one of those I-clean-when-I’m mad people. If you saw my house, you’d know that for sure. (Real life friends, I can hear you laughing.) But insomnia can make strange (out-of-)bedfellows of me and cleaning tasks. I wasn’t really even upset last night, […]

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Wild Kingdom meets Law & Order

February 3, 2009

It’s turning into a weird week. Hey, you’d think so, too, if you’d spent a good part of two days tearing your house apart looking for a javelina. The javelina isn’t alive, in case you were worried. But it is my 4th grade boy’s class pet, and he was assigned to look after it for […]

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