We spent the weekend doing the things we like to do: playing cards, cooking big meals while dancing around, pranking one another, visiting the turtles, acting dumb at the grocery store, turning on one in changing alliances of two. It was our last weekend together at home before my older son leaves and it’s been…
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Tonight I’m doing two of my favorite things–eating a delicious dinner with fantastic people and leading a writing workshop with unsuspecting participants. It’s a stacked day, it will be my fourth writing workshop of the day. That is a sweetness I almost cannot believe. There are a few tickets left, please join us at the…
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My older son is off to college sooner than planned. He got an internship and is leaving early next month. It is a wonderful opportunity, I am so glad he got it. It is a terrible thing and I wish it weren’t happening. Both. I have been sighing with relief and weeping at the same…
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The kid in the featured photo is graduating from high school this week. He read that hardcover Dick and Jane until the spine basically dissolved. He just felt so happy to be a person who could read, so impressed by himself (and with good reason, if I may say so–he was barely four). He doesn’t…
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I know last week I said I’d tell you about Bad Stories, and I will soon. That post is waiting patiently in my drafts, but this weekend is a bit loaded and warrants something else. Yesterday my mom arrived back in town and her hair has gotten long and she casually mentioned that she wrote…
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When was the last time I told you how grateful I am for your eyes on this page? Has it been too long? I’m sorry. I’m grateful for all the ways I get to communicate authentically with authentic people. It is literally the single greatest privilege of my life. I’d be so confused without it.…
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I came across this interview of Mary Oliver done by my dear friend Renee Olander. I don’t agree with everything anyone says, not even the very clever and brilliant Mary Oliver, but one thing she said in this interview has been turning over and over in my head. I never had any other notion than…
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It’s been a bit of a time here sick kids and snow days so many emails to get out from under. So this will be short. There are beautiful things in the world and Camille Dungy is one such beautiful shining writer in the world. Read everything by her. Follow her on all the social…
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We’ve had some loss in the community this week, and it’s really hard to reconcile. Reach out when the dark begins to close in, sometimes just being in the company of other breathing laughing crying souls is what it takes to make it another day. This Friday October 20th at 7 pm, come join us…
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I made this hilarious joke on Instagram and I don’t feel like it was properly appreciated. I even texted a bunch of people to ask them why they hadn’t responded appropriately to my hilarious joke. I think they just didn’t see it enough times, so I’m making it again here. See? Because the only thing that…
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