I apologize for leaving you on the edge of your seat, waiting to find out just what was in that Pigeon Tale O’ Love from which my daughter gleaned some supplemental knowledge of the birds and the bees.
Well, the birds, anyway.
I’ve left you hanging longer than I meant to, and she’s had two library days […]
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Sometimes it’s in the way they look at me, and sometimes in what they say, but every so often I catch my kids trying to get the drop on what it’s like to be an adult.
“You get to stay up however late you want. It’s not fair.”
or “When I’m a grown up, I’ll drive my […]
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I have a routine in the mornings. Get the kids to school, hit the Starbucks drive-thru, and come home to a quiet house where I sit down at my desk in my office and ease into the day. Unless there’s someplace I need to go - errands or an appointment - I put off my […]
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I was in the middle of nowhere, but I felt as though I had arrived at someplace important and pivotal. A place that should show on some map of my life with the words Go here.
Heavy and golden, the moonlight sank to earth on a parachute of stars and brought everything around me out of […]
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So the other day in the car, 7 year old Girl pipes up with, “I just saw two pigeons in love. They were hurting each other - that’s how you know they’re in love.”
NPR couldn’t top that, so I turn down the radio.
A few thoughts go through my head:
A) It’s time for The Talk about […]
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It feels like self-hypnosis, what I’m doing. In order to move my pen forward, my mind has to go back, even further back than the small paragraphs in my head that I’ve used for so long to say what happened back then.
This is different. It has to be different. To tell the truth of what […]
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While I’m busy working on another project today, I’m asking for a get out of jail free card here, by posting something from my way-back archives. This was a fun post from my very early days here, and reading it again reminds me that I could use one of these today. (Hey, stop looking at […]
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And that’s when she put her book down. And looked at me. And said it: ‘Life isn’t fair, Bill. We tell our children that it is, but it’s a terrible thing to do. It’s not only a lie, it’s a cruel lie. Life is not fair, and it never has been, and it’s never going […]
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Welcome to this episode of…
Where Should the H Household Set Up a Homestead?
Ask anyone in my family or my circle of close friends (or, just look back through my archives here), and they’ll tell you that our decision about where to move has been a bit, uh, circuitous.
I’m embarrassed to say that we’ve taken […]
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It was a perfect moment, one that I would have missed five minutes later. A lake in the mountains. An empty beach. The water still but for where it simmered with fish far from shore. The mountains reflected on the surface.
I drove up and parked just in time to see a blue heron stepping through […]
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