Heredity

 

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Extra

It’s Leap Day. The extra day means I can’t say that March has come in like a lion, but… come on. It totally has. When I woke up at 6:15 and checked my phone for the weather, the weather app cheerfully told me it was a balmy 60 degrees. In Urbana, Illinois, not on my [...]

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Hinge

Up relatively early for a Saturday, cup of coffee, experimenting with updating from an iPad. The birds sing relentlessly. Lilly has a soccer game later this morning. Yesterday we received some good news and then we received some not-so-good news that gave us mixed feelings about the actually-good news. Tomorrow is Easter, which means relatives, [...]

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Sweet Dreams

Sleep was filled with cozy dreams, dreams without weird symbolism or world colliding, dreams that felt safe and sound and clean and organized. I woke up with a stomachache and couldn’t find my slippers, but I’m determined to make the most of this day. Because, you know, why make the least of it? I received [...]

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That’s What I Get

Geeking out about this morning’s post-early-morning-thunderstorm-light + grabbing camera and heading out in pajamas + wet, muddy knees = cannot find the adapter that would allow me to get photos off the camera. I think it is actually at work, in a place I cannot get to. So, here are some randoms. Me at work, [...]

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photo by Cody Bralts Once upon a time I wanted to live on a farm. I’m good with living in town now, especially my town, with its bevy of gardening folk and chickens-allowed philosophy, but occasionally I have that yearning for some space. And a farmhouse kitchen. With vintage Pyrex and utensils. The kitchen pictured [...]

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Ten Minutes

It’s all I have left of my lunch break. I’m not sure when I’ll have time to blog again, because I need to record this week’s In My Backyard segment, which looked like this as it was being drafted: I have some books to box up I’ll be attending a soccer practice (I miss the [...]

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Repository

Cody left for CHGO Saturday morning. I was working, he had overslept and was grouchy, and therefore hadn’t had much time to gather himself, much less say goodbye properly (like, you know, with words). I was feeling pretty grouchy about it myself until I received an apologetic text from him a bit later as he [...]

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Little Lucid Moments

This week has been a complicated one. It came on the heels of a terrific weekend, got busier at work than I am accustomed to this time of year, included a bummer or two, and I’m still working out to the same dumb music. Cody is home for a short bit, though. He came home [...]

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Silver and Opals

I got some disappointing news today. Nothing huge, but disappointing just the same.. I learned a lesson or two in the process. And it was good – really good – to come home to Jim and Lil. As Kelly says, lick the wounds tonight and come back tomorrow. 1. Interior of The Food of a [...]

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