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Life on the Bandwagon

,9:14 pm

    It’s been three weeks since I last posted. Holy falling off the bandwagon! That’s backwards actually. I haven’t fallen off the bandwagon, I’ve been driving it non-stop, ferrying my teenage daughters everywhere they need to go. Take today, for instance. I picked up my moppets from school at three p.m., scooted down the street to […]

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Rituals and Raspberry Afros

,11:12 pm

  You never know when your kids are going make an important disclosure, or share a troubling feeling. More often than not, it is in the car. “I am not comfortable with Dad’s not being at Grandma Ann’s memorial service,” my daughter says, seemingly out of nowhere.  We’re driving to her boyfriend’s house. “I know […]

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Mom, Can You Hand Me _____________?

,8:01 am

    I am driving my dust-coloured mini-van. I keep my eyes on the road and one hand on the wheel. The other hand flails about searching the glove compartment/my purse/the floor of the van. Mom, can you hand me the IPOD antenna? The baby wipes. A napkin. A bandaid! The bottle of water rolling around […]

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Sorry That I Wasn’t Sorry

,9:55 pm

“Why don`t people look?”  Her voice was an angry, rasping whisper. She was talking to me. Not directly. But still, that salvo was clearly aimed at me. I was hustling through the grocery store at noon on a Wednesday, running one of five “quick” errands I was wedging into the middle of my workday. Strawberries, […]

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Clean Sweep, Fresh Start

,1:04 pm

Long time, no post. Maybe it is time to come back? I am, after all, in the midst of a re-shaping of my household, routing things out, re-arranging, de-cluttering, cleaning, reconsidering it all…. My husband and younger daughter are in Kentucky, watching the World Equestrian Championships an event that takes place only every four years. World […]

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Trophies to Give Away, Memories to Keep

,1:26 pm

It’s funny how memory works. Last fall, in a fit of de-cluttering, I came across a storage bin full of old trophies: awards from various run/bike/swim events I’d competed in, cross-country ski loppets, mountain bike races. When I was in my late teens and early twenties, endurance sports were a big part of my life. […]

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