Tag Archives: Florida

The Cat in the Bag

This Easter, my mother-in-law sent us a package of goodies, and she included a reusable shopping bag from Publix (I miss that place!). Yesterday, I came home from picking up a few things at Harris Teeter, and I emptied my cute little chicky bag and began putting things away. When I turned around, this is [...]

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Jeanne Leiby

Last night, I was with the Kings watching American Idol. S. was singing into a little pink karaoke machine as Jacob was doing his number, and she was twirling and belting it out, and Jesse was videoing it. Warren went to apologize for the interruption in the program, and I told him not to–”In ten [...]

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Nostalgia

Today, I’m remembering: Being newlyweds in Key West in the summer, the heat powerful and perfect, afternoon naps in a papaya-colored room. I remember eating Mexican food outside about an hour before sunset, music playing in a language I don’t understand, the sun winking just over a brown fence, behind a large ficus tree. Rain [...]

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Floridian

While we’re on the topic of growing up in Titusville, some visuals:

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Liftoff

Growing up in Titusville, Florida, you get used to the launches, you become accustomed to the strange fact that one of our nation’s greatest technical achievements is on full display mere miles from your house, that every now and then a 300,000-pound rocket is shot from the earth into space, or that every now and [...]

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