My heart goes out to people who suffer from migraine with any regularity. I only get one about once every month or two.
Today, you would have found me laid out with a washcloth over my eyes, only moving when I had to, and with two children buzzing around me like bees. Except louder. And more […]
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This day, June 29, is an anniversary of sorts, but not one that I celebrate.
I’ve told the story of what happened on this day almost 30 years ago. Every year after, Sue made a point of mentioning or celebrating the date, or I’m sure I would never have remembered it on my own. I don’t […]
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You can’t tell me this wouldn’t be fun. And I’m no fan of heights.
(Is she wearing flip-flops?)
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This time of year, our sky here in Arizona can look like this:
It’s monsoon season, and that’s a dust storm (also called a haboob–say it out loud, you know you want to). Until you see one, it’s impossible to imagine what a wall of dust hundreds of feet high looks like. Spectacular, and dangerous. We […]
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It’s official. I’m an old lady.
Last night around 11, I found Mr. H asleep on the sofa, covered with the heavy afghan I knitted for him years ago (that afghan pretty much guarantees a nap–I’ve yet to meet anyone who could fight sleep under its weight).
It was late, but I wasn’t quite ready to go […]
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It’s a hell of a thing to have to break your children’s hearts.
After long hours at our veterinary clinic and then at the emergency animal hospital yesterday, we discovered that our dog, Buddy, had advanced lymphoma. Any treatment we could have offered him at that stage would only have prolonged his life for maybe a […]
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For almost two hours I sat in a big cushy chair at Starbucks with a book, The Outlander, open on my lap. From my spot, I could watch everyone who came in or walked out. I listened to the impossibly long orders for coffee, or something like coffee. I did fly through quite a […]
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I’m borrowing this idea for a photo mosaic from Flutter and from Tysdaddy at Cheek of God. Theirs were so cool that I had to make one, too. What’s interesting about it is that even though some of my answers didn’t pull up a photo that correlated exactly, the mosaic still reflected an essence of […]
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Ladies, is there anything you would add to it?
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Two nights ago, at much too late an hour, I caught the first half of Out of Africa before falling asleep. And a few days before that, I turned it on somewhere in the middle. So, in my own backwards way, I managed to watch the whole movie in the last week, along with bits […]
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