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Quiet Christmas Photolog

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After the harrowing drive, Beachmas itself was quiet and lovely. We ate many things and read books, tried to do a puzzle that was so hard that we all gave up, explored bits of the Outer Banks we hadn’t previously, that kind of thing. Jack introduced my mother to Arrested Development and I had no […]

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Back from Near Death and Vacation

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What? Oh, hi. Yes. Writing. We had a lovely trip down south. Once we actually got there. Somehow, I was taken by surprise at the swiftness and ferocity of the east coast blizzard. I thought we were going to beat it out of town, or at least get far enough east that all we would […]

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Back from BlogHer ’09

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All the way out to BlogHer, I was thinking, why I am I going here? All during BlogHer I thought, why do I blog? And in the aftermath of BlogHer I keep thinking, when can I write? It was an idea that Genie put in my head, since I do enjoy blogging and over the […]

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Details: Now with More Devil

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I am sitting in between three or four lists right now. A to-do list I didn’t complete last weekend, a packing list for BlogHer, a to-do list I wrote last night, and a shopping list with almost everything checked off. I don’t even know which one to look at right now. Thank goodness my exam […]

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France, here I come!

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That is how I used to feel, as a kid, when standing on the sand at the edge of the Atlantic Ocean. I used to give a good bit of thought to the idea of how I would find or contact my parents when the ocean swept me away to France. I grew out of […]

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