Caught up in the busyness of summer and a writing deadline, I missed my weekly post last week…not that any of you are keeping track, I’ll bet. You are probably busy, too. Summer is always the season that takes you off guard with how busy it really is. You look forward to bare feet and […]
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My sister planted a tree when she was a child—the tree you see pictured in the feature photo above. Now it is an adult tree, grown tall and slender as a young woman—as my sister herself—but still with many layers of wood to add to wood, many green leaves to shoot forth as it matures.
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A robin contemplates, still as a statue on the lawn. He regards the world long in profile and then turns and regards it a while facing me. Now he hops across the lawn, jerkily slowly, pausing often. This is me also in life right now. Contemplating. Hopping jerkily across deadlines but listening, thinking in between.
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First, the big news. For those of you who didn’t see this on social media already…I am expecting. Behold, my official announcement: Coming December 2023! Isn’t it odd how we say, “I am expecting.” Expecting what, I wonder? Expecting joy, certainly. Laughter, love, a playmate for Annalise. Expecting more writing interruptions, less sleep, less predictability
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One thing I love to observe in my daughter is her blooming and blossoming imagination. Where did she get it? I wonder. Who taught her to pretend things? When she was quite young–maybe a year or year and a half–she was eating Cheerios while listening to me read a story about dogs. And she took
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