Tag Archives: Murphy

~:: Christmas Day ::~

Posted on December 25, 2013 by K

So, Chaz came to stay overnight on Christmas Eve, as she always does. But she did not get up before dawn.  Neither did we.  The kids were all going to show up at about nine, so the following pictures are … Continue reading →

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~:: Another Sampler:Summer ::~

Posted on July 17, 2013 by K

I am still not myself. I don’t care about capturing light. I don’t care about writing. I don’t care about making things. The fact that I don’t care about cleaning the house is the only reassuringly normal thing about these … Continue reading →

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~:: Birthday Trip to the Mouse House ::~

Posted on May 15, 2013 by K

Okay. So by May, I was really discouraged because of  the weird state of my little body. Worn out, hurting – just not feeling hopeful. But in the background, all along, G and the kids had been coming up with … Continue reading →

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~:: Triathlon ::~

Posted on September 1, 2012 by K

Triathlons don’t usually start with roaring scary thunder storms. But ours did this morning.  G’s, I mean—it wasn’t mine. I don’t do triathlons. And neither did he, actually, this morning.  Here’s how it went: up at five thirty, he was … Continue reading →

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~:: Rest of the Springy Thing ::~

Posted on April 22, 2012 by K

We have always kept a line between the candy eggs on Saturday and maybe real eggs on Sunday, though why dyed eggs, real or not, should count as appropriate on such a deeply significant holy day, I’m not sure I … Continue reading →

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~:: My Very Large House ::~

Posted on April 18, 2012 by K

I have written about this before, the strange and expanding nature of my very large house. It starts with a cluster of not very large rooms.  Like these two, with a boy standing on the seam between them. And like … Continue reading →

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~:: What Happened on Monday ::~

Posted on March 22, 2012 by K

First, may I say that I am growing to hate capchas of any kind with a deep and abiding hatred?  Well, I am.  And the darned things are getting longer. Isn’t there another way? Counter-bots that follow the dang spammers … Continue reading →

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~:: Spookiness ::~

Posted on November 1, 2011 by K

I have now answered all comments, visited many blogs, answered email.  If I have forgotten you, yell.  I feel like a victorian lady, just rising from her writing desk in front of the receiving room window – except without the … Continue reading →

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~:: Rewind again: Not our Wedding ::~

Posted on September 11, 2011 by K

I will have you know that I am a precursor – a harbinger of our new, cool global modern social order.  I remember very clearly: when I was an adolescent and I realized that my mother had a driver’s license … Continue reading →

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~:: The Wedding ::~

Posted on September 4, 2011 by K

My mother, who was a wonderful woman and (perhaps I should say, “thus”) different than I am in many ways, faithfully wrote small accounts of the family’s activities to her mother in law every week. One day, my grandmother wrote back to … Continue reading →

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