Archive for March, 2010

It Was the Best of Times, It Was the Worst of Times, but Mostly the Best

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It was 4PM Saturday when I got the call. And here’s the sappy scene-setting so you can put yourself there with me. I’d normally try and veer away from cliché,...

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The conclusion to…

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…THIS story. We drove 8 hours through the night to meet her, 90 miles/hour, braving police and veering semi’s, pretty much everything we owned crammed into the back seat. She...

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Why Do I Always End Up Driving West from the Opthomologist at 5:30PM on the Sunniest Day of the Year?

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That was a rhetorical question. It’s because I always manage to make appointments for 4PM, knowing full well it means I’ll be driving home with tears streaming down my face...

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A Death In the Family

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We have suffered a loss… And don’t tell me it’s just a tree. I loved it. I mean, at least as much as you can love (a tree that’s FIFTY...

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Where Were We?

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Okay, sorry for the brief hair-trauma hiatus. Let’s get back to the adoption saga. Oh, except wait. Speaking of hair traumas, LOOK AT THIS!  This is my hair three hours...

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I must take a break from our ongoing adoption saga to ask a pressing question…

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Sorry, I have like NO time today…Have a ton of stuff that needs to be done, including actual work-work, which has been put on the back-burner the past couple days....

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And Now On To Serious, Ponderous Stuff…

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Okay, so after yesterday’s post about basically nothing, I’m going to write something real. And not-funny, and probably not all that entertaining, but meaningful. This post is full of meaningfulness....

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To Blog or Not To Blog

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I’ve pondered it ever since I read my first blog about a decade and a half ago (when I was, um, ten) back when blogs were still called “online journals.”...

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