Category Archives: Just talk

~:: A Sad Little Story ::~

Some of you aren’t going to understand this. The last year has been just kinda hard. I shake my head at myself for writing that, knowing the kinds of things many of you have been dealing with. Mine has just … Continue reading

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~:: That Which Makes Us Tired ::~

In response to a blog recommended to me by my dear M: my comment. It would appear that I can still write opinion. I may not be sitting down with images just now, or telling stories of family life, but … Continue reading

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~:: And when it’s not normal . . . ::~

Monday was a weird day. Such a weird day.  Sometimes it doesn’t take much to throw you off, just a little something that isn’t right, something a little off register. So it really started on Sunday, when we got back … Continue reading

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~:: Where Did All the Stories Go? ::~

So, now I’m philosophical. I haven’t actually written anything down for a long time. Ideas come and go, but I am too busy to cup them in my hand long enough to pour them into words. Today, I decided to … Continue reading

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~:: Inversion pt. 2 ::~

This is my brother.  He’s a great guy.  But once in a while, he’s an idiot.  He doesn’t ever read this, so he won’t know he should be offended. About this, anyway. Okay, so it’s the first day that’s really … Continue reading

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~:: Doing Things ::~

As I think about this past strange year (wondering if all years seem strange as you leave them and shoot out the other side), I realize that I have done something really unusual: I’ve actually checked off a giant number … Continue reading

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~:: More Helpless Talk ::~

If you’ve come here expecting photos and crafty things and cheeriness, please go to the entry after this one, which is actually before this one, but below. There you will find cuteness.  If you want how I feel now, which … Continue reading

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~:: Direction ::~

I’m lost. Not as in: my soul has failed.  As in: standing at a complicated crossroads and turning helplessly round and around and around. I’m at that place where a long laundry-list of delightful, challenging, loving to-do s (how the … Continue reading

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~:: And Where Did They Bury the Caucus? ::~

And this: go look at my giveaway and enter to WINNNNN!  Giving away a hard back copy of Breaking Rank! Here are some awful (I am NO good with this phone) shots of our only actual snow storm of the … Continue reading

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~:: The Tale of a Grey Bird ::~

I will tell you that I, having decided to educate my children myself for as long as I could, waded into teaching them to read with naïve confidence.  And backed out of it astonished at the complexity of the job. … Continue reading

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