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Snow day
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Unexpected attention
So Eric’s in Kentucky, which means that it’s another week of church choir rehearsal where the director and the tenor section are both all, “Carrie, where’s Eric?” and I’m smiling and saying, “Why, he’s...
View ArticleChristmas, 1995
It pains me to admit it, but I can’t remember the exact date. I think it may have been the twelfth? Anyway, that was the evening that Eric took me out for dinner at The Glasshouse Grille, one of the...
View ArticleChristmas Shopping
Long ago, shopping was a pretty simple affair for me. I had a set amount of money, gleaned from birthday presents, allowances, or what I could earn with little crafts that Mom would sell for me at her...
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Therapy
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Melancholy
I was telling Sam about his first Christmas, when he was six months old. We celebrated at Eric’s family’s house that year. In the middle of telling him about it, I was struck with sadness, an...
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A Christmas Wish
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Race in about four hours
I’m all jittery. I always get like this before a race, where part of me is excited and ready, and part wants to hide behind the sofa until it’s over. What’s up with that? It’s not like I’m a contender...
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October!
Every year, people and stores (the former following the latter like docile sheep) crank out the holiday stuff earlier and earlier. Halloween stuff up in August, Thanksgiving in September…somebody I...
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Required Holiday Viewing
Until I was dating Eric, I had never seen “It’s a Wonderful Life,” not even once. I still haven’t seen “A Miracle on 49th 34th Street.” (Whoops!) These things just never happened to appear on my...
View ArticleMy year in pictures
Individual memories are so numerous and scattered that sometimes it’s easier to sum up a year by reflecting on what struck me as important enough, in the moment, to capture visually. If a picture is...
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Pancakes!
Are you making them tonight? Are you heading to IHOP for their free pancake deal? Are you mystified, not knowing what I’m talking about? Back in West Virginia, when I was an undergrad, our composition...
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Of goat meat
Some days are so routine, you could probably get through them without ever even opening your eyes. You know what’s coming, you know how you’ll react when it does, and nothing unexpected musters the...
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Wiped
I used to be such a night owl. Now it’s not even nine o’clock, and I’ve been watching episodes of Doctor Who with Eric on the computer, drinking a couple of glasses of Rioja, and I feel absolutely done...
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Traditions
Not a lot of time tonight; I’m getting ready to head to a small gathering with my discussion group from MOPS. For some reason, I volunteered to bring an appetizer instead of wine or a dessert; I’m not...
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Jiggety frigging jig
Ugh and oof. I really do prefer to come home from a vacation/trip to an at least somewhat tidy house, and there is nothing quite like returning home to a house that was apparently bombed with Christmas...
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Completely unrelated
Apparently, it’s National Delurker Day. So, come out, come out, wherever you are. I’ll even give you a question to answer in a comment, to make it easier! Just something that’s been brewing in my head...
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And that’s not even talking about financial aid…
I’m reading Getting In right now, and it’s a really good read. It’s also making my stomach hurt. See, it wasn’t that long ago that I was panicking and frantically searching for hoops through which to...
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Happy Father’s Day
Happy Father’s Day, Eric. This morning, we gave you breakfast in bed, prepared by Gabe and me, and a colorful card that Sam made himself. (GABE: “Dad, did you like my card? Sam did most of the work,...
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Sing, sing, sing
Eric and I have been singing together in church choirs, on and off, for about fifteen years. We got “roped into it,” I should say, when we were students at West Virginia University and our beloved...
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It was the best of times…
January was about winter illnesses, board games and yoga, and trying to keep warm. February was about doldrums, which I seem to have dealt with by drinking lots of coffee and eating good food, much of...
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Goodbye, Good Riddance, 2013
So I took some time off. Recapping all that stupid health stuff sort of…no, very much depressed me, and then it didn’t end up being over in the first place. Since I can already feel my stomach...
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