To be or not to be organized

Are people born organized, or can an organized person be made? I ask myself more often than I’d like. I’m a lazy neat freak, and while I can blame my son all I want, my treacherous memory reminds me of how things looked before he was born, and oh my, the horrors. His room? My [...]

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Twelve months

In my mind’s eye I see her, three decades younger, wearing her linen pants and pale pink sweater. She pulls out her compact, freshens her lipstick, and waits for him to arrive.
This improbable image, set place in a heaven that I don’t really believe in, has been fixed in my mind since she died a [...]

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And a happy Monday to you

As I was running around this morning trying to simultaneously drink my coffee, make my breakfast, pack Jamie’s daycare bag, and find him some clothes, the only coherent thought in my head was that it was shaping up to be a typical Monday morning.
Oh, I wish. Right as I was about to throw on my [...]

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Protected: Pulling it all together

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Memory…happiness and loss

I am in a hurry on this cold, grey, rainy day but still, as I search for a parking space, I’m reminded of the many, many times I’ve driven down this same road and wound my way around this same garage. Here is the spot where I backed into another car as I pulled out [...]

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What I see in the mirror.

I haven’t talked much about DIE(ting) for quite some time. I hit my stride in January and – with the help of being really, really sick – lost 7 lbs. in about a month. It must have been just the right 7 lbs. because the difference is evident in both my face and my waistline. [...]

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What I really hate…

…about being a working mom is how the simplest thing – having to get a prescription filled* – can almost ruin the evening. It’s the difference between a real dinner and a hastily thrown together thank goodness for morningstar farms and frozen veggies affair. The difference between a 2.5 yo who would have been able [...]

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Spiders!

This is my entry for March’s Write Away contest at scribbit. The theme is childhood memories.
When I was growing up we had an actual shower/tub combo like you’d expect in any middle class home in any midwestern city. But we never used it. I was told the tub leaked but never why we didn’t get [...]

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Taking the plunge

I was asked point blank recently when we were having another child (totally appropriate circumstance and it didn’t bother me one bit). Instead of the usual hemming and hawing – well, there’s the money issue and the size of the house issue and MD’s schedule issue and the I’d like to focus on my career [...]

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Spiritual buffet

Our church has really great Sunday school offerings. Last month they had a series on non-Christian religions – Hinduism, Islam, Judiasm, and Sikh – and last week they began a series taught by this guy on modern Christianity. I missed the first session because, well, because I forgot about it. But yesterday I was more [...]

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