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December 31, 2014
About that twice-exceptional radio interview
Sometimes I sits and thinks and sometimes I just sits. And sometimes I quits a job and sits wondering if I did the right thing and the universe responds with a big YES by throwing something in my lap so very unexpected and delightful that I can’t help but sit up and pay attention. Yes, …
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December 26, 2014
And the greatest of these is sloth
Oh Staycation, how I love thee. I love thee like an empty bladder and full tank of gas, like exhaustedly snoring children and a snappy Malbec, like a clean house and a clear calendar. I see youfar too infrequently, but I’ve enjoyed the hell out of you this week. Tom has had the whole week …
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December 17, 2014
There’s a laugh around here somewhere
I don’t thinkI have seen the sun in over a week. Winter in Chicago has arrived. Incessant gloom and chill and dark and please tell me the sun is visiting you, wherever you are. My Happy Lamp is on ten hours a day and not touching themelancholy, I’m pounding hot tea to keep my sanity …
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December 5, 2014
Today I will DO ALL THE THINGS!
The hardest part of theday is when my brain slowly comes back online in the morning. It’s a slow and laborious process, hindered by the fact that during the boot up process I have to get a kid up and out the door to schooland that I’ve had to give up coffee again because I’m …
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November 25, 2014
‘Tis the week of Thanksgiving and all through the house
…all sorts of things are stirring and not a single one of them are on the stove. We managed to take a crazy time of year and Plus It with business travel and holiday travel and behind the scenes chaos and a sneaking suspicion that last week’s exhaustion crash was my thyroid begging for attention …
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November 21, 2014
{Friday Fragments} Mid-November January Edition
It has been years,years, since I wrote a Friday Fragments post. Just seemed appropriate today, given my current state of mind (holey) and body (exhausted). This weather, this January in November shit weather, is not doing much for my mind, body, and soul. Thank god I don’t live in Buffalo, NY, or I probably would …
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November 19, 2014
Jen’s Unbreakable Rules for Holiday Music
I was in the car with the boys the other day when… Jingle Bells Jingle Bells Jingle All the W…. STOP!!!!! No Christmas music in early November. Just no. And so, like other important discussions that must be had only in the car, like peer pressure and drugs and sex, I had to have the …
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November 18, 2014
A kinder, gentler NaBloPoMo
I’m mellowing in my middle age. Last week I missed a day of NaBloPoMo and it only irked me a tiny bit. No guilt over it, no writing shame spiral, just oops and done. Today I’m thumb-typing this post between flute students. I’m eating a sandwich with the other hand, too. Multi-tasking at its very …
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November 17, 2014
{GHF blog hop} To Be Both Normal and Extraordinary
Most Fridays during the school year we’re at our homeschool co-op. It’s a warm (in company, the buildings are freezing, but that’s why I have a down coat), comforting, supportive day for us. It’s the first (and still only) place Andy can hang with peeps like him, where we can both let our freak …
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November 16, 2014
Today I played a concert.
A few years ago (ok, a LOT of years ago), I wrote a short piece about playing a concert. Go read that, and pretend I wrote it today. Because today Idid play a concert. Not orchestra, which is what I wrote about before, but wind ensemble. And damned if I’m not exhausted. I’m getting dinner …
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