• THE Wedding of 2011 . . .

    / August 3, 2011

    . . . (until November 5 . . .) (when my other sister gets married, of course!) So, I’m not going to tease you.  I’ll go ahead and start this post with a…

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  • Careful What You Wish For . . .

    / August 1, 2011

    The back pain has settled into a dull, constant ache.  So maybe I preferred the ache-free, sucker-punch-at-any-minute stage more.  I don’t know.  The dull ache sucks.  But it’s an ache that aches in…

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  • The Debt Ceiling

    / July 28, 2011

    . . . is not going to be the topic of this blog post!  Wa-hey!  Did I trick you? Many of the updates in blogs, facebook, email, legal tabloids, and what-have-you are regarding…

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  • This Is Not A Post About A Wedding

    / July 26, 2011

    I’m in my parents’ kitchen in Nashville, dropping crumbs of chocolate chip cookie into my baby son’s mouth and monitoring the doneness of some pasta boiling on the stove.  I have begun a…

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  • Idyll Interrupted

    / July 25, 2011

    On July 15, the day after that last post, I took the boys on another amazing bike ride.  We waved at train conductors, truck drivers, and shipmates, and I marveled at how cool…

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