Domestic Bliss

  • A Needed Morning Off

    / September 27, 2016

    I worked both days this weekend, and Sunday and Monday nights til approaching midnight – all to meet a Monday filing deadline (met).  So this morning when I got a call from Craig’s…

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  • Name-Dropping NOLA Eateries

    / August 6, 2016

    The boys (all four of them) have been gone this whole week.  I had to stay home, of course, and I have literally worked every single day that they have been gone.  It’s…

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  • Care Work

    / July 28, 2016

    Today I am largely engaged in care work – feeding ice to a pale and sweaty six year old who can’t keep food or drink in his stomach today; following him around the…

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  • Summer Weekend

    / June 26, 2016

    A summer weekend: I wake at 6, lace up the shoes and go for a run.  The summer heat and humidity is already so intense, my peppy run quickly devolves to a walk/jog.…

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  • Dinners

    / May 30, 2016

    An old college friend with three elementary-school aged children was recently widowed.  Her husband was in his early forties when he died – he had been dealing with cancer a long while, which is…

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