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Strong side 13 May 2011 | 11:53 pm
Several Thursdays ago, I flew to Washington to see my sister Rachel. She and our Aunt Beth met me at the airport; we traded updates on friends, cousins and great-aunts, shared noodles over lunch at a ...
Kicking up the dust 5 Mar 2011 | 07:06 am
I grew up in a dusty house. There was dust from dry summers and dirt roads. The smoke-and-ash dust of a house fueled by a potbellied stove. The plume of dust that rose, then fell when the fuzzy blades...
my little princess 3 Mar 2011 | 06:30 am
On Sunday afternoon, having finally kicked the flu and coughs, we went outside to celebrate daffodils and light jackets. While Don did a little yard work, Jack asked me to help him take over a small ...
Calling in 25 Feb 2011 | 09:30 am
We are all kinds of sick around here, where a sick day never stays singular – this time, it’s approaching a sick week. When it rains, it pours and all that. Today’s lineup. Jack is sick, too, and be...
I got mine. 15 Feb 2011 | 04:05 pm
Valentine’s Day takes me back. To second grade: decorated shoeboxes full of Ninja Turtles and New Kids on the Block cards, with their silly stock greetings and fuzzy perforated edges. Tiffany’s mom br...
The week in numbers 14 Feb 2011 | 04:52 am
10 inches of snow (a few towns north, 30!) in 8 hours. It was the biggest 24-hour snowfall this state has seen in 93 years. 18 degrees below 0 the next morning. An all-time record low. 3 snow day...
Catching up – where I’ve been, and where I’m not going. 10 Feb 2011 | 01:09 pm
This time last week we were packing in a hurry, trying to get down from our mountain a few hours ahead of a windy storm of ice and snow – and a day ahead of our flight to Washington, D.C., where my si...
A blanket of snow, a coat of paint 24 Jan 2011 | 05:51 am
I love snow days. Around here they tend to come around only once a year, so we treat them like surprise holidays, with glee, cookies, snapshots and top stories on the local news. (Sometimes we head i...
On the best-laid plans – and moving on without them 16 Jan 2011 | 10:53 am
So Christmas passed 20 days ago, and we still have a decorated pine in the hallway. The tree isn’t dropping needles yet, and Jack is partial to playing guitar next to it in his underwear. We say thi...
Those home fires 13 Jan 2011 | 04:38 am
It’s cold. Really cold. Ice-blue skies and hazy peach clouds cold. Frozen fog cold. Thank goodness for wood stoves cold. This morning the thermometer on the porch hovered near zero. My New Jersey fam...
