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The Best Text Ever

,6:19 pm

MOM MOM I DID THE LAUNDRY This announcement came via text  from my fourteen-year-old daughter. At the time, I was in Florida with my parents for a short vacation and had left my two daughters to fend for themselves in the care of my housework-challenged husband. (Wait, is “vacation with my parents” an oxymoron?) Sometimes, […]

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White Towels, High Heat

,1:21 am

“Mom, what are you doing?” my daughter asks.  I am kneeling in the upstairs hall, peering through the viewfinder of our SLR camera, taking photos of the laundry hanging over the foyer railing.   “I’m taking pictures for my blog. I’m going to write about the laundry.”   “Right,” she says. She heads back into her […]

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De-Cluttering my Daughter’s Desk

,3:49 pm

I am sitting at my daughter’s desk attempting to cure her computer of a virus. There is a lot of waiting involved in this task, as the computer chugs through scans and multiples re-boots. As I sit, I contemplate the chaos of objects littering the surface of her desk. My daughter is much like her father, […]

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A Password Worth Keeping

,3:27 pm

 I am sitting at my daughter’s desktop computer troubleshooting a virus issue. I’ve been at it for forty minutes or more, defragging, reconfiguring, updating virus definitions, restoring order. I am almost done. “Windows can’t update important files while the system is using them,” the screen says. I imagine a tiny tech guy typing this message. […]

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Missing the School Bus. Seizing the Day.

,5:08 pm

This morning my daughter missed the school bus. It used to be that driving her to school wouldn’t have been a big deal because we lived only eight minutes away. Now, though, my daughters attend a French-language high school in another city, a forty minute drive south. I had already planned to drive to the […]

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