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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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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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Small Acts

,9:22 pm

A writing friend wrote to me lately, “I am a bit discouraged about continuing on with my piece. First, some sad stuff happened next. I need to transform that for my own well-being ….and plus, I was just at such a fragile age – I really am bigger than age 14 now – and all […]

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Prayer Beads & the Pursuit of Happiness

,6:58 pm

About a year ago, I bought some prayer beads from a little shop downtown. I don’t recall what prompted this acquisition, no doubt it was inspired by some article I’d read, a theory I’d latched onto. The beads are lovely, an irregular rainbow, copper next to coal-black next to mustard, pale mauve, Caribbean green. They […]

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