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A little less than a year ago, I moved my blog to its own URL, and when I did so, I had the opportunity to reread many of my old posts as I updated broken links (still not all fixed, by the way). As I did, [...]
On my morning walk,
a thousand perfect phrases
flooded through my head.
I dashed in the door,
sat down at the computer
and found they're all gone.
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I started my day off on Tuesday by reading Lisa Belkin's reflections on what she's learned in the eighteen years of parenting since her son's birth. I thought, "Wow, that was lovely and touching and resonated with me in so many ways, I can't wait to [...]
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I was recently reading a book on Buddhism and the Twelve Steps that describes a meditation exercise in which you label your thoughts: "desire," "aversion," "thinking." The author mentioned one woman who was surprised at how much of her thinking centered on desire: I want, I [...]
Way back a year and a half ago, I entered a contest to win a copy of the book Momma Zen by Karen Maezen Miller. I had never heard of the book, so I based my decision on the following factors:
It was a free book.
The title had both Momma and Zen in it, which [...]
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My son recently did something startling. He sat down in a different seat than usual. That may not seems startling, but for years, he has had the same place. And it's not just the same seat he enjoys, sameness in general comforts him: the [...]
The Maven (and believe me, if you don't know the Maven, you should) was playing the interview game on her blog. I know I've done some variation of this like 5000 times in the past year, but it's always fun, and in this case, it got the Maven to e-mail me some words she [...]
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One summer night many years ago, I was standing on my parents' back porch talking to an old friend -- old love -- on the phone. The air was warm and moist in a way that wrapped around me like a blanket, and I could [...]
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Many years ago, I had an argument with my ex-boyfriend about grammar.
"You know, between you and I..." he said.
"You and me," I corrected.
He refused to believe me. So, we bandied about words like "preposition," "subject," and "object" before consulting Strunk and White. In the [...]
Mum is curious,
"Do you let your husband read
your blog?" she asks me.
My husband is weird.
He loves my blog but hasn't
actually read it.
I do summarize.
Sometimes I read posts to him.
I can not not share.
"Does HE blog/journal?"
No, he finds blogs triggering.
He has a journal.
Last, "Do you look like
the woman in the header?
Nope, I don't think so.
