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Work/Life

By Erin | Published: January 26, 2011

The semester is in full swing: there is writing to grade, there are discussions to shape, there are poems to study. If I loved teaching last fall, I love it more now. Jesse and I have started driving to work together two days a week. We get up in the dark, and I make us [...]

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A Day

By Erin | Published: October 27, 2010

6:30 am: Hit snooze button. Almost drift off to sleep, but start thinking of everything that has to get done today. Get out of bed. Turn off alarm. Feed cats. Read Bible. Wonder when Daylight Savings Time is going to kick in. Wonder if that will make 6:30 in the morning any less dark. 7:00 [...]

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What Earl Didn’t Do

By Erin | Published: September 27, 2010

Well, we’re all in various stages of underwater here today. What’s worse than waking up at 6:30 on a Monday morning? Waking up at 6:30 on a rainy Monday morning—which everyone knows was designed BY GOD for sleeping in and for nothing else. Ah, but I am a good worker bee and dragged myself out [...]

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An Open Letter to Last Night

By Erin | Published: August 25, 2010

Dear Last Night, I was good. I was in bed by 10:00, alarm set for 6:00. I was finally going to walk with Sharon at 6:30 this morning, had texted her to confirm, even though I’d been a delinquent and had begged off for at least a week or two. This was the morning I [...]

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Waterworks

By Erin | Published: August 24, 2010

Slowly but surely, I am getting into a routine. Now that the first week with its summer cold is over, and the first weekend enjoyed, I’m feeling a little more steady, a little more solid. Jesse and I have been getting up at 6:00 each morning; we’re going through that whole “Read the Bible in [...]

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