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Hugs!
I am a firm believer in the healing power of hugs. But you have to mean it. I’ve been told I give incredible hugs, and it was by a couple of people I didn’t particularly like. That could indicate that if I really, truly care about the person I’m hugging,…
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Dez at 10 months
Aw! Look at you, handsome, wily boy! You are my sun, my moon, all the stars in my sky. I love that I can tell you that and (unlike your mom and uncles) you don’t cut me off or even flinch. I love your mischief . . . and I love…
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Friends
I have such amazing friends, ya know? Yeah, I’ve mentioned it before. The beautiful thing is, we’re all a bit crazy, we’re all a bit off, but we’re good people and although we’re far from perfect and not always noble, we’re the first to be there for each other and…
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Seriously, what’s it going to take?
Blech. My pistachios are mushy. I guess maybe it’s because of all the rain. The sun is out now, anyway. Supposed to go away, though, in a little bit. I was not sick of the rain, but I was sorry for the death and destruction. I looked like a drowned…
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Drenched
Pondering whether I look pathetic or adorable soaked clear through, with rainwater dripping off my blond curls, running down my face and the back of my blazer; my black tennis shoes squishing after wading through the ankle-deep ponds, my shirt and skirt clinging to me so tightly they stained my…
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Oh, and . . .
I’m also easily amused. Yes, easily flattered, easily amused, not easily impressed.
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Weeds
I’m watering the lawn in the front, in the northwest corner that’s dotted with brown spots that look suspiciously like urine kill from neighborhood dogs and cats, and I’m pulling weeds from the rocks and gathering them into my arms so none fall back into the lawn. I put the…
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A kindred and avenging spirit with a side of Korn
There was some confusion in line at the Walgreen’s, what with the lady in front of me switching to a newly opened register but dropping a magazine and ducking to retrieve it and the old bat (there, I used it again) at my back snapping, “Are you going to go?”…
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Gauge
The boys and I were at Outback celebrating Demon Spawn’s new job with the steak and crab special, of which I got none of the crab because Edison’s Black Dahlia wanted extra and his father wasn’t going to get the crab deal and we asked him to because then he…
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Good day
Demon Spawn got a job that is a considerable step up from his miserable existence at Safeway; the check from the Rocky pension to roll over into my IRA arrived and is deposited; Edison’s Black Dahlia started school and is more psyched than he thought he’d be about his classes…
At Least They're Committed 