Joe’s first Easter. No words to describe the joy NO YOU’RE RIGHT, I AM A WRITER, SO I’LL TRY, but I refuse to make sentences. Suspenders Joy Grandparents Love Ham TINY SHOES AND PANTS relief …
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There are no Words
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Rolling into the Easter weekend like
I don’t claim to know St. Francis of Assisi, who wrote this age old Anglican prayer, but a friend recently sent this to me, and I think it’s a good meditation for the weekend. This …
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A Day
Pandemic days bleed into each other, so I like to mark the holidays, the special ones that wear a blocked colored hat on my google calendar, with a Festive Pajama, so that looking back, we …
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The Cookies of my Labor
I ask myself these questions: should all of the time I spent the last six weeks baking this myriad of Christmas Cookies for neighbors and friends and husband and self and taking pictures of these …
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The Cookie Box
As I’ve been circling Christmas traditions in my head, to land on some for Joseph, I’ve stumbled across a new one for MYSELF. It’s at once selfish and giving which is my favorite kind of …
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new old things
The other day I said to Morrison, this year I want one hundred presents under the tree. I want the presents to cascade from the tree into other rooms like we’ve suffered a terrible leak …
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Thanksgiving 2020 Pre Fixe
Menu includes: Mashed Sweet potatoes with Garlic A Baby Monitor Herb Brined Cornish Hens Stuffing with Sausage and Pecans Something to Prove to oneself about ones abilities and time management now that one is a …
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CHRISTMAS QUAKE
Early this morning, North Carolina had its first earthquake in 94 years, a magnitude 5.1. Thankfully no reports of injuries, just some lost bags of flour and bottles of Sunkist at grocery stores, some disturbed …
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Feaster
I spent four hours making Morrison and I an elaborate Easter dinner: Rosemary pork chops with apples and onions, mustard potato salad with pickled onions which I’m SURE you recognize from the latest Southern Living …
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thinking ahead
It’s extra warm in LA this morning and the air has that feeling of renewal and Spring so it’s definitely time to start planning things like Easter Brunch, and asking big questions like what Closet …