Archive for July, 2008
one hit wonder
In 2004, I was published in a real live book. An essay that I’d written in high school and then submitted to Chicken Soup was picked up. It was miraculous – quite literally, the best piece of mail I’d ever gotten in my life. I was 20 years old, in the middle of a college [...]
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waiting out the storm.
There was a giant thunderstorm last night, the type that rattled the windows with its thunder and lit the entire room with bright angry lightning (because of COURSE we forgot to close the blinds before we went to sleep). The storm’s noise and light woke Madeline (whose blinds we’ve never shut once), and she woke [...]
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baking memories
Jimmy and I are headed to a cookout this evening hosted by the head coach of the high school football team that he assists with. I’m really excited to go and formally “kick off” the football season. I know it seems early, but in our house it’s been football season for about a month now, [...]
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date night
Had a really great weekend, complete with a date night. Jimmy and I went to a baseball game on Friday night – not the big leagues, just the local minor league team. We got great seats, courtesy of my father-in-law’s season package, so we met up with my sister and her fiancé and off we [...]
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he would be 80 tomorrow
Another found item from the spring of 2006. So much has changed… but when I read this I realized that very little has. I still miss you, Grandpa. I still think of you every day. Tomorrow should be your 80th birthday. Instead of celebrating that, we’re gathering as a family – all of us, all [...]
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