Tag Archives: summer

I Am Back

Observations: 1. It was a lot easier to bounce back from red-eye flights when I was in college. 2. It’s freaking hot here. Ridiculously hot. Like, I feel like I’m in an oven. A very wet oven. All the time, even inside. 3. We might be getting a hurricane next week. Or we might not. [...]

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The Weekend, or Cat in a Punch Bowl

Things that happened last weekend: 1. My in-laws were in town. I have cool in-laws. I’ve known them since I was in second grade. My parents and my in-laws are friends. I’m a lucky girl. My mother-in-law loves Piglet and Disney and Christmas decorations (any holiday decorations, really) and health food stores. She’s Italian and [...]

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The Vegetables!

Early summer is probably the best time to live in southeastern North Carolina. Allow me, if you will, to quickly summarize the seasons here: Winter: OH DEAR GOODNESS WHY DID I MOVE HERE IT’S SO SO COLD I WANT TO DIE. (My laments go un-punctuated in the winter. Grammar is for warmer temperatures.) Spring: OH [...]

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Summer Update

Here is summer: Jesse wakes up at his normal time, and I try desperately to stay in bed as long as I possibly can. Eventually, I get up and we have breakfast. (This is usually right after Gracie has thrown up hers. Sigh. Not the most pleasant sound to wake up to…but I’ll take it [...]

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Decisions, Decisions

I’ll let you in on a little secret: I might–might–be doing something crazy this summer. A couple weeks ago, I switched a setting in the novel I’m writing to San Francisco and immediately had a crazy idea: What if I spent a month this summer in San Francisco, researching for the book, writing, soaking up [...]

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