Tag: beau

losing the plot

Lately I’ve been forcing myself outside at night, no matter how much more work I have left to do. I grab my iPod and jam my feet into my shoes and I’m out the door. Reluctantly, yes, but the point is: I’m out....

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just now

I was changing into a tank top and pajama bottoms in the bedroom when the beau came running into...

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trying

Lately, I’m trying to be quiet. Not quiet in the sense of turning the volume way down on NOW...

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they call me spooky

Hand to God, my father — my rational, mathematically-minded, hard science-loving, fiscally conservative Republican father — swears he saw a UFO. He was 17, and on the tractor. He’d just made a turn when he looked up and...

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old dogs new tricks

The beau had been traveling for work last week, so after he got home on Thursday night I told him about what Angie and Clare and Aisling had put together for International Women’s Day. I told him about the post I wrote for...

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taking the leap

Three things. Well, two things, and a story. First. Thank you so much for all your thoughts and insight on my job situation. You guys will probably not be disappointed to find out that my final decision was to go with...

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