Monthly Archives: April 2010

Slave to Fashion?

So I’m going to go ahead and blog about clothes. Stop laughing. I mean it. Stop. I like clothes. I do. They certainly beat the alternative. (I know, right?) But fashion? I don’t get it. Even little-kid fashion. In fact, I was in Macy’s yesterday with all four Kids, and I had gag-reflex issues with...

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Today, in Numbers

16: Inches of snow left in the “shady corner” of my front yard. 2: Daffodils ready to explode, any minute. 4: Kids home for Spring Break! 9: The hour I require them to be out of bed. 13: Tiny tomato plants growing in the egg carton beside my kitchen window. (Averaging 3 new ones a...

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Dream

In my dream, we were eating a celebration dinner in a salon-type restaurant, with circular tables and squashy chairs pulled up around them. Grandma Wright was there (remember Grandma Wright? She passed away a few months ago) but something was different. She was growing smaller and younger. I was sad to realize that I’d missed...

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Invisible Children

You know that realization that comes (more than once as you grow up) that this is a big, big world and you, lucky you, have it better than almost everyone in it? Kid 1 is there. Over the course of the past few weeks, she’s had her eyes open to the horrors of the WWII...

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A Bit of Random

* You know staying home at night? With your family? Those people you like, and who live in your house? You know staying home and eating dinner and having a bowl of popcorn and maybe watching Pixar Shorts? Yeah. I miss that. * I wrote 1800 words on Monday. That is a lot of words....

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Wha? It’s April?

Okay, so the calendar is getting the better of me (also, it’s snowing, so I can be forgiven for thinking it’s maybe still February, right?) but I wanted to tell you this: I will be at the remarkable King’s English Bookshop in Salt Lake City tomorrow (April 6th, as in the Sixth of APRIL) at...

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Easter Time

I talk about a lot of different things on this here blog, and some of it may mean nothing to a great percentage of you. But here, today, I’m going to say something I usually think of as too personal to put out here. (And we all know there aren’t too many things I consider...

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