Category Archives: Life

Priorities

By Erin | Published: February 22, 2012

I’ve started working on the book again–after too long a break to deal with some distractions that sucked up my time–and it feels great to be writing again. I’m happy with the progress I made last November (during my failed attempt at NaNoWriMo) and I’ve jumped back in with both feet. I’m thinking a lot [...]

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Catching Up

By Erin | Published: February 17, 2012

Sorry things have been so quiet around here lately. Life has been a great big ball of stress, and there’s been precious little free time (and that free time has been consistently allocated to taking hot baths and sitting–brain dead–in front of the TV, watching a bunch of people lose their dreams on American Idol. [...]

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Eleven

By Erin | Published: February 14, 2012

Technically, this is the eleventh Valentine’s Day Jesse and I have spent together. We’ve been together almost twelve years, but we started dating officially on February 22, 2000, missing our “first” Valentine’s day by a little over a week. We started dating the day after Jesse turned 18. He turns 30 this year. We are [...]

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Conversations While Drawing

By Erin | Published: February 3, 2012

The other day, I was watching A., who has just turned four, while he drew at the kitchen table. Here is the (rough) transcript of our conversation: [Somehow, the topic of New York City comes up...] Erin: “A., do you know anything about New York City?” A: “Yes.” Erin (surprised): “You do? What’s that?” A: [...]

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New Year’s Resolution

By Erin | Published: January 23, 2012

I had a lovely weekend of friends and books and thoughts and time at home with Jesse. I found my New Year’s resolution: Less Facebook, more books. I know better than to make exercise-related goals. One day, maybe–but today is not that day. The resolution has been building for a while now, but it was [...]

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