Jan 4
I took the boys out around lunchtime yesterday to shop for their dad. We do this for each other and it’s cute and getting more touching. When they were little they used to pick things that were...
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January 6 was Twelfth Night – and that means we now have King Cake on the counter! Carnival season has begun. I am in a walking krewe this year called the Candy Girls. We wear purple wigs and purple...
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January 16*
(*the amount of friction I have removed from writing here more by simply titling these with the date is huge. “Thinking up a title” can sometimes just stop me in my tracks entirely.) Pretty things. I...
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In her 1993 book “Dakota,” Kathleen Norris describes growing up in a Methodist church where her father was choir director. From toddler age she sang in the cherub choir, and took the sheet music home...
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Describe your current season of life. What do you appreciate about it? What makes it different from other times in your life? I am no longer young, but not yet old. The boys don’t take every scrap of...
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*THPR is The Happiness Project Revisited, and in January we have a week of prompts. Here are a few more. These are boring navel-gazing, fair warning: Are You Promotion Focused or Prevention Focused?...
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Twyla, our little Teddy Roosevelt terrier, has a tan heart-shaped spot. The pointy bit tucks into her right hip crease, the rounded tops stretching over her right haunch toward the ridge of her wee...
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What is your superpower? I’ve been stewing on this one a few days and don’t have a very fun or interesting answer. I can carry lots of dishes, a holdover from the waitress days. I can keep indoor...
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What’s the nicest compliment you ever received? Why was it so meaningful to you? The school I attended for the longest period of time (given my military brat nomad upbringing) was Hickman Elementary...
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February 24
Jack is my errand buddy. If I have to go to the grocery, to Target, drive across town to pick up Craig from baseball . . . whatever, wherever, he’ll come along. Sometimes he chats, sometimes he sits...
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