Monthly Archives: May 2010

Remembering

WW l Thanks Daddy Jim for putting your life on the line.  For wearing the uniform and saving the burning airplane and doing what you had to so that my kids could be free to choose.  I hope I have … Continue reading

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Week May 3: pt. 5

Notice: I actually sat down and answered comments.  I love the conversations we have, and apologize for having let them lag for so long. —–=0=—– The Saturday formerly known as: My Birthday This is how I spent it: privileged to … Continue reading

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May 3 week: pt. 4

Loses some of its punch when I spread one incredibly dense and intense week over a months’ telling. Short-line real-time muses: A.  Today was the first time I’ve been outside since October that it made me happy to be there. … Continue reading

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May 3 week: pt. 3

A new word:  hecti.  What could it ever mean? (By the way – you know that dust you see in the header?  That’s about one third of the dust we ended up with by the following week – and what … Continue reading

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Now we pause for a word~

In the last month – heck, in the last week—Cam’s house finally came into his possession (which means that Char’s came into hers), our bedroom was finished so we could move back into the rest of the house, and I … Continue reading

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Week May 3rd: pt. 2

Tuesday, May 4 Here is how paint colors are chosen in our house— Me: You know, I think we really kind of need a change after 30 years.  And I think I’d like black walls this time.  Any shade; doesn’t … Continue reading

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–=May 3 Week: pt. 1=–

Monday. I got up—way early for me—packed up and drove to the city with a carful of lights and technology. This is the only professional gig I ever do, the SLC Home Machine Quilting show.  I spend weeks fretting about … Continue reading

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=) Mother’s Day (=

Presently jammed into my little corner of the couch, pretending to be sick. When you’re sick, you have permission to disengage; you don’t even have to see construction dust.  But I’ll explain all that later.  For now, I have a … Continue reading

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HB to M

It’s TIME!!  And here are my  birthday plans: M’s best friend, Kyle, is getting married tomorrow.  He just COULDN’T wait six more weeks for M to come home, darn it.  Fairly shameful, considering that his first date with his beautiful … Continue reading

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Goin’ to Texas: pt.1

I went to Texas for five days to be with my dad and sister.  So far away.  No problem with the flight this time, though.  Last time, I paid for a non-stop and ended up in Houston for an hour … Continue reading

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