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Glass

The other day, I was putting away clean dishes from the dishwasher, when something completely unexpected happened. I had a glass in my right hand, and when I opened the cabinet I heard a scraping sound, which turned out to be a coffee mug flinging itself at me from the very top shelf. The mug [...]

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Snapshots

Life, lately: This weekend, I saw three of my favorite ladies, Kirsten, Jessica D., and Visha, and I talked to Simona on the phone for over an hour while I peeled potatoes and chopped leeks and let the bread rise. Dinner that night with Jessica was an early Thanksgiving: apple-butternut squash soup (made with butternut [...]

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Under a Mountain of Laundry

We were gone. Now we’re back, and trying to dig our way out from under the towers of laundry and mail and library books that need returning. It’s hot here, and Gracie’s splayed out on my office floor, on top of a stack of manila folders containing old paperwork. Pictures and details to come. The [...]

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Snapshot

Life: It’s cloudy out and I sort of wish I could spend the day sleeping, but I also have the day at home so I want to be productive. There are query letters fanned out across the carpet behind me, Gracie is sleeping in the living room, Oliver is staring out the kitchen window, I [...]

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Snapshots

This is life right now: We spent Sunday afternoon in Myrtle Beach, exploring, and we found two places we’d not been before. The first was a trashy flea market where we walked in the heat, melting, my long summer dress clinging to my legs, and looked at cheap guitars, gaudy turquoise rings, old cast iron [...]

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