Category: Lifestyles
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Making Room
A year or so ago, my husband and I had a long (weeks long) conversation about how to get past being moderately satisfied with your position (in every aspect) to becoming truly satisfied and…
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Reconciling My Stressed Relationship With Time
Our weekend without the kids was a huge blast! We did get home, though, and spend the first few hours wandering around the house smelling their pillows and folding and refolding their clothes (ok…
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Snub Scouts
The Cub Scouts have started recruiting at my child’s school. I am not sure what to make of it. I feel as if I have to take his post-brainwashing session postcard, inviting him to be…
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Making It
There are times in everyone’s life, I think, when they question if the path they are on is the right one. Having a calling in life – like being an artist, a teacher, a…
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Love is a Many Freakish Thing
My brother finds himself in love. It’s weird, once you’ve been there yourself, to see someone you know so well sucumb to the utterly miserable beauty that falling in love is. I can remember…
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Banana Nut Heaven
I have to share with you a recipe I made yesterday. It was for a banana nut bread, but I think it is more of a cake than anything. The sour cream in it…
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Oh Holy Gods of Routine, Have Mercy on Us
Something occurred to me today – in less than five days, I will again be at the mercy of the metro public school scheduling… Lazing about making excuses to the kids as to why…
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The Great Wind Down
I can see the light at the end of this long tunnel of summer. We have gotten the car back. We are getting school clothes for the boy. He is excited to start school in…
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Thank Goodness for Starbucks…..
When you’re feeling tired and overworked and, maybe, even a little cheated in life – go to Starbucks. It was just the happy reality check that I needed. I had a meeting there this…
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“Sit Down a Spell. That Can Wait”
My husband and I were sitting on our porch the other evening, having a couple of beers with some friends after the kids had gone to bed. From where we were sitting, we could…