I don’t make resolutions. I toy with plans. When 2012 hits, I’m going to toy with the following: 1. Wear these shoes. (Okay. I ordered them last night. I plan on matching them up with skirts in the spring.) 2. Knit something or other, spin something or other, and take on more freelance projects. 3. [...]

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I’ve been doing a lot of this lately: In the past five days, I’ve watched four Cary Grant movies. I started out with An Affair to Remember, next up was People Will Talk, then The Grass is Greener, and Walk, Don’t Run. I started Charade last night and will probably finish it this evening. The [...]

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Well, hello there! This morning we’ll be attending our fifth (and final) Christmas celebration. There will be turkey, but not for me. (There will be green bean casserole and mashed potatoes for me. Also, granola made by my sister, which happens to be the greatest granola anyone has ever eaten.) The theme for this Christmas [...]

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When this year’s Christmahanukwanzaakah concert was announced, I was ready to do something different. I’ve done piano stuff for the past three years. In my mind, it was starting to get stale. This year I decided to (perhaps drink a beer and) sing while I play. Anyone who knows me knows that I am NOT [...]

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On Friday afternoon, Harper came home sick with a fever of 103.3. On Saturday, we took her to the emergency room, where her temperature was so high that they “lacked the equipment to measure it.” In an ER. Their thermometers go up to 104.8, and she blasted through that in seconds. Twice. When the nurse [...]

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As you know, I’m the head room parent for Harper’s class AND Meredith’s class. I will never sign on for this sort of thing again. It’s not that it’s stressful (it’s stressful), and it’s not that it’s expensive (it’s expensive), it’s just that I really have no concept of what fills time, and room parties [...]

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Last Monday I received an e-mail from our pastor asking if I would be interested in participating in our Lessons and Carols Sunday by reading one of the lessons. Because I tend to flip out with this sort of thing, I quickly called Jeff and asked if HE would like to participate in Lessons and [...]

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I feel myself fizzling a bit with the daily music thing. SO, I’m abandoning it! See? It’s just that easy! I’m now putting myself (and my family and that includes the dogs and let’s also throw lentils into the mix because this with eleven Ritz crackers is so amazing) before the music! (This is totally [...]

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Cooking separate meals for everyone in the family is starting to get to me—mainly because at least one of the three people for whom I’m cooking has actually been known to cry at the table because she has no interest in even tasting what I’ve prepared. When that happens, I feel as if time has [...]

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Today was a bit tiresome for a number of reasons. BUT, beneath the dreck was a delicious lunch with friends. AND, this evening I’m taking time to figure out how to draw an amiable stack of pancakes and some jaunty jelly. A few days back, my friend Summer asked the following: “If you could pick [...]

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