He has been making paper cranes for several weeks now – part of a current, perpetual, unending origami obsession he now holds. One day we checked out 43 origami books from the library — but he prefers to learn how to fold directly from You Tube videos. There is a guy — a teacher — [...]
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On May 22, 2011, I woke to the sound of cartoons, softly muted, making their way up the stairs. Then, the sound of dishes clanking, spoons tinkling and the microwave. My husband and I snuggled deeper into our sheets, relishing the fact that finally, after all these years, the kids can finally take care of [...]
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This photo, taken a few happy weeks ago, is my touchstone for how I will define the summer of 2010. Yet, summer is not cooperating with me. Summer wants me to identify its memory with something more sinister. This was before my husband started crossing the continent on airplanes, and we started just missing each [...]
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The two of us sat outside, under an arched portico, at a marble table that was meant to seat ten. Next to us, there was a table of 6 giggling girls. They had stolen the chairs from our table, before we arrived, leaving us with a single padded wicker bench, curved to match the outline [...]
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It’s all I can do to not share this scene with you via You Tube. But I’ll have to wait until next Friday. For now, you’ll have to guess. This should be fun. Below is the dialogue from a scene in a movie. See if you can recognize what movie this is from: “Let’s not [...]
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Dear Kids, The three days that herald Memorial Day Weekend leave us full of greed, year after year. All winter long, we hunger for these 3 days so that we can hammer through so many of the warm weather projects that we can’t touch all winter. This year, we were blessed with warmth and your [...]
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Dance club is a clandestine ritual that parents can only attend by invitation, when you are lucky enough to be asked to serve as a chaperon. I was invited. First, Dad was out of town, so the boys and I huddled around the computer together as we watched You Tube videos that explained how to [...]
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A Mother’s Ring is something I’ve always coveted. I’ve never bought one because Mother’s Rings look too matronly. This one is perfect. See more of Mad Maggie’s Designs, here.
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There’s nothing quite like the first week of back to school to light a spark under your marriage. I don’t think I have the strength to sign one more school form, cross reference yet another medical form, or enter one more sporting event on our family calendar. But I do have the energy to sit [...]
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