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Missing Link
“Life is what happens when you are busy making other plans.” —John Lennon The past few weeks, I feel like I’ve entered a new numbness. Some of it has to do with a cold virus hitting the household at the turn of the year, but I think now, it’s more than that. I wonder…is this…
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American Women
Justine and I finished the book “Little House on the Prairie” last night before bed. It’s been a fascinating read as an adult to my child, not least because I remember my father reading those books to me as a young girl. But I also have enjoyed the history lesson, one I can maybe appreciate…
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Listening and Painting
My ears haven’t been working all week. I feel like an old lady, asking the kids to repeat themselves four or five times. I went to the Dr, on Friday, but he says it’s temporary, my eardrums are recessed due to blocked sinuses. He wrote me a prescription, but advised it was best to just let…
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The Book of Strange New Things
Michael Faber is one of my favorite authors. He published a novel in 2014, which normally I would have jumped to get my hands on, but with everything going on with Vernon, I didn’t stop to read it. Then I came across it in my local library last weekend. I finished the 500-page book this morning, after…
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Pockets
Somehow I got the kids both to school in record time with very little complaining. It’s the first day back to school after what seems like a very long Christmas break. And it was raining! We love rain and the stormy skies—despite being a rare hydrating treat, this weather makes us all think of England, recalling…
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Mindset
“Becoming is better than being” —Carol S. Dweck I love this grey, wet weather—such a treat in Southern California. It does slow us down though. And then we’ve all had colds, which also slow us down. All during the last week of school holiday. Actually, it has been nice to relax into this no-pressure time.…
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The Necklace
Happy New Year’s Eve. Hopefully you’ll get a chuckle out of this story, as did I when it happened. I’d given myself a present for Christmas, just an impulse buy—a necklace I’d found whilst shopping for gifts for others. To justify my spend, I put it under the tree, signed as Vernon. As my widowed friend…
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Princess Leia
I was 6 when Star Wars came out. I guess I was old enough to see it in the theatre, because I remember the experience. Justine, now 6, is really into Star Wars movies too. She dressed like Leia for Halloween. The Princess was a great role model for little girls then and now. We…
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Grief Dreams
I’ve heard from others that the dreams would come. Dreams about the deceased. Dreams about death. I’m not really a night dreamer (or if I am, I don’t often remember in the morning.) But last week, when we were up at my brother’s, I dreamed that I’d been diagnosed with some sort of cancer that could…
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The Men Who Fell To Earth
I wrote this last month for my writer’s group. Might as well share it now. It seems to me that the world started falling apart after you were hit. Of course it’s not a sudden thing, but the clarity of it, no one can ignore. It’s been a week since the election. My heart is…