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Archive: October 2008

Moving in

I know I said I wouldn’t be around. But the cable company hasn’t yet switched service to the new house. (Surprise, surprise. When does the cable company ever do anything right the first try?) Though they did come and run the wires today...

If Anybody’s Still Reading….

Today my computer is set to move to the new house. We’re having the internet service transferred so there’s no point in it staying at an apartment with no reception. I’ll miss everyone out there in my virtual neighborhood; but I...

Be It Ever So Humble…

Dom just called. After a very long day full of interminable last minute delays, they’ve finally signed the paperwork. The house is ours!!!! Tomorrow we begin to move in. The appliances will be delivered, the internet and cable hooked up, the...

Phia says:

The best toys are the ones I’m not allowed to play with. I let her chew on Isabella’s toy cell phone while Bella is napping. Best. Toy. Ever. I’ve seldom seen her so content. She’s better move on to something else when Bella...

The Safe Harbor of Heaven

This morning I was moved almost to tears by this homily from Friday’s funeral mass for Spc. Stephen Fortunato of Beverly, MA, published in yesterday’s Salem Evening News. Here’s an excerpt from the end: When Stephen entered into...

Yep, Still Packing

As far as I know we’re all set to close on Wed. Oct 29. Yep that’s this coming Wednesday. Thursday we’re supposed to have appliances delivered, the cable guy install our internet access (which means I’ll be silent as the...

Recently Read

Kingfishers Catch Fire by Rumer Godden. A semi-autobiographical novel set in colonial India. Sophie, an English widow, decides to rent a house in a small villa in rural Kashmir. Accompanied by her two children, she is determined to live a simple...

Different Strokes from Different Folks

Julie D. pointed me to this website a while back and I thought I’d pass it on. Every week the blogger posts a new photograph and invites artists to paint, draw or etch the scene. She then posts all the various interpretations. I was especially...

Packing, Packing, and More Packing

Sorry it’s been so quiet around here. My living room is a maze of boxes full of books. We close on the house a week from today and move in on Nov 1. Things are crazy and writing just doesn’t seem to be happening. And I’m being...

Pink

Motherhood changes you in profound ways. That’s probably not news to anyone. Still, one of the ways motherhood has changed me has been very unexpected. I used to abhor the color pink. It wasn’t just that pink wasn’t my favorite...

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