Song Lyric of the Day: You know your love (your love keeps lifting me) / Keep on lifting (love keeps lifting me) / Higher (lifting me) / Higher and higher (higher) Jackie Wilson / “(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher“ A while back I wrote about how I…
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Photoblogging: Slinky
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Scene From a Marriage #37,453
“What are you going to do if she goes to college out of state?” “We can move to be closer to her. You know, in case she needs to come home to eat, do laundry, hang out.” “So you’re going to stalk her.” “If moving just to stay close to…
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Is This Thing Still On?
Song Lyric of the Day: I guess I can’t believe you really came / And that we’re sitting on this pier / See, I’m smiling / That means I’m happy that you’re here Sherie René Scott / “See I’m Smiling“ I haven’t blogged in months. I haven’t even read blogs in…
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Photoblogging: Profile
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The Year of Living Dangerously … Close to Home
Song Lyric of the Day: Come away with me / Come, let’s go away to be / On a new adventure for two / We can fly across the ocean / Or take a train together / I don’t care as long as it’s beside you Tim McMorris / “You’ve…
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Scene From a Marriage # 34,774
After driving out of our neighborhood on the way to day care: “Oh my God! I forgot my phone!” “Really? You never forget that.” “It’s OK. I can go home at lunchtime to get it.” A few blocks from day care: “Oh my God! I left my work laptop at…
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Hold Me Closer, Tony Danza
Song Lyric of the Day: Hold me closer tiny dancer / Count the headlights on the highway / Lay me down in sheets of linen / You had a busy day today Elton John / “Tiny Dancer“ A couple of months ago Rich and I enrolled Coraline in her first ballet class. Technically,…
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Photoblogging: Mother’s Day 2014
Yesterday I enjoyed a low-key Mother’s Day, my fourth as Coraline’s lucky mom. We started the day with brunch — Coraline’s favorite meal — at The Egg & I, our first visit and one of the few places with a less than two-hour wait. Then we came home, where Rich…
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From the Heart
Coraline made this for me at day care. She told the teachers what she wanted to tell me, and they wrote it on this little butterfly made from tracing her hands. It’s the most perfect Mother’s Day present I could have hoped for. Artwork like this makes day care worth…