This morning, it was crisp. The Professor got a fire going in our wood-burning fireplace, then built the king bed we just bought after 2.5 years of sleeping on a mattress on the floor and it makes our room feel so much less grad school! Now, of course, I want a bed skirt, king-sized duvet…
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Apocalyptic Dreams
It is 4:30 in the morning, and I have been up for an hour. I was having a nightmare – in the car with work colleagues driving to a client’s site when the facility blew up in the distance. Flames and sparks, a black cloud that began to spread across the sky and quickly blotted out…
October
11 years ago this month, I met my husband. (On that day, my friend’s first and only nephew was born – happy birthday Kevin!) We were at his parents’ home in South Carolina. I was there with the two women who would be my only non-sister bridesmaids – two of my theater besties, two women I…
Breaking the Writer’s Block
“You look tired” said the YMCA employee to me, as she passed me on her way up and down the locker room aisles with a broom and dustpan. I am running a comb through my hair, pinning it back up into a bun, getting ready to go back to work. “I am pretty tired,” I…
Challenge Complete
I explain to the boys what we are going to do, and Jack says “Ah. So when we dump water on your head, then the sick people will laugh, and the sickness will come out of their mouths and they will be better? Is that it?” When I explain that no, but it will make…