Tag: life
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Back to Square One and Other Thoughts at 41
Photo: I took a full-blown “old lady tumble” on Tuesday afternoon. One of those “I don’t know what I tripped on” sort of falls that sent me forward onto my driveway, hard on the wrist and the knee and on the foot. Being young (for a while longer) and foolish (likely forever), I of course…
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The Clutter of What is Done and What is Left Undone
Sometime in mid-August, we got our first egg. That egg, the one pictured. A milestone. A mileegg. Some of my dearer friends have made full fun of me, considering me to be a reactionary fool. Don’t get chickens when egg prices are up. Inevitably, the price will fall (true) and you’ll have spent a stupid…
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Stories You Can’t Make Up: How a Hitchhiker Stole My Week (in the best way!)
Photo: The photo has nothing to do with the meat of the post, but I don’t have any photos of hitchhiking, you know? Anyway, I’ve been trying to capture the changing landscape thanks to all the rain we’ve been getting (we’ve been in a drought! The rain is a lot, but very welcome!). I love…
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Of Time and Times
Photo: A little bebe chick. A little bebe Welsummer chick. She and her sisters are larger now–photo at the end of the post! I was a fool to think I was going to start blogging here every Friday. For starters, I’m not terribly interesting, so there isn’t much to write about from week to week.…
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The Spirit is Moving, and I With It
(Photo: My little writing community has been writing together since the 1st in a new program I’m calling the Chase the Light Challenge. I’ve been posting prompts every day to motivate people to start new projects, get unstuck, and otherwise write every day. One of the tools I’ve been using is a beautiful deck of…
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Doing The Most (And Therefore, Not Writing)
Photo: Photo within a photo, both taken at the beautiful (and allegedly haunted) MIT Endicott House in Dedham, Massachusetts. The perfect place for a writing retreat. I had every intention of posting my serial story episode last week. So many good intentions… But the thing is, I was wearing my leader hat last week. I…
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