Tag Archives: fall

~:: What is the Grandmother Doing? ::~

Yeah – it’s been an age since I entered anything here.  But then, it’s been an age since I started doing genealogy again. I finished a long-time dream: the book of my darling mother’s life. Turned out to be some … Continue reading

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~:: All Hallows Eve ::~

Okay – I had a lot to say.  I wanted to write about October (which I still will), and about Hallowe’en – (sneaking in the fact that I love the yellow moons and the black cats and the pumpkins and … Continue reading

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~:: A Ghost Story ::~

A few years back, when I had no barn but was big as one, my mother came, as mothers often do when their children need them. It was October, and it had been a long nine months. The weather was … Continue reading

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~:: New Buddies ::~

Two weeks ago – almost – Donna Lohr flew all the way across the country to spend a few days with two crazy women: Rachel and me. There are plenty of people who are suspicious of relationships that are started … Continue reading

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~:: A Little Lapine Fun ::~

There are daring souls among the crafters who send a character they have made literally out into the wide world – traveling to places the maker, herself, may never see. Someone did it with a meerkat once, a yarn one. … Continue reading

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~:: Tales of Salmon ::~

They always come swimmin’ right back up the river ~ And this is what we did this weekend.  Have children around.  Gin came home for a day.  She dropped the dentist off to be Slick Rock Bike Guy and came … Continue reading

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Treasure Gathering

One of my more profound failures as a female concerns shopping: I don’t like it.  Put me in a mall and I mostly want to go home.  Especially if it’s pants we’re shopping for.  I tend to  buy my clothes … Continue reading

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Large Syringe/Shorter Ghost

Nov 1, 2007 The little absurdities of life (or—another excuse not to sit down and face writing the last chapters of the latest book). Scene: my house with Ginna in it. Ginna (pointing at me): Max, what’s her name? Max … Continue reading

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