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Monday, November 24th, 2008Some memories are like early fall’s leaves. Red, coral, gold. Yellow dappled with green. Round, smooth- edged birch leaves, almost lemony-yellow. Jagged-edged, tough golden beech leaves, veined and oblong. The classic, red/gold/orange sugar maples, the kind of fall leaf children draw when asked to draw the Platonic Fall Leaf. Blood red, delicate Japanese maple leaves, [...]
The Ones
Wednesday, November 19th, 2008Part of the process of falling in love, one person makes an agreement with their object of affection, pledging their undying loyalty and love.
One agrees to shelter the other from the storms of life. They will prove their love by fighting the others battles, standing up to the monsters and vowing to never leave their [...]
A Design for Living
Wednesday, September 24th, 2008I’m not exactly sure how this post will transform itself into anything logical or entertaining but I’m going to swing the bat, nonetheless.
As a recovering alcoholic, it is very important that I try to keep my life on the “up and up”. Essentially, this means that I am to be an honest, accountable, responsible, and [...]
Too much of a good thing
Monday, July 21st, 2008I’ve been musing on how the adult child thing can rear its head in good times as well as bad– particularly the feeling inadequate thing. I had the extreme blessing of being able to go to BlogHer08 this weekend. All around, I met women whose blogs I’d admired from afar, and others whose [...]
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