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So apparently I’m from New Jersey

I took a fun dialect quiz yesterday. You answer about five minutes’ worth of questions about how you pronounce certain words or what you call certain objects (those things you run in, are they tennis shoes or sneakers?) and at the end it tells you where your dialect is from. My map shows that my […]

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Almost…

I have been on a years-long quest to get one of my iris plants to bloom by Mother’s Day. Thus far, I have been thwarted. But this year it’s looking SO GOOD. So close. This is my leading contender. See the color up top? That usually turns into a full flower in a day or […]

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Tenderness

Being at a birth this week has thrown me out of the ordinary rhythm of my life in the best possible way. Nowhere am I feeling it more than when looking at my own children. Parenting teenagers is very different from parenting newborns. Being the mom of a teenager involves the qualities of a drill […]

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In the meantime

I just had to take a picture of this most gorgeous of tulips that has somehow, improbably, has survived in my front yard without being chewed up as a snack by a hoofed menace. Is it not absolutely beautiful? I want to sit outside and stare at it all day. (With a shotgun, waiting for […]

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Someone special

Someone very special just came into my life and I am over the moon about it. Her name is Hazel and she’s 7 pounds 3 ounces. I performed her mom and dad’s wedding ceremony a year and a half ago and yesterday I was lucky enough to be in the room as we welcomed her […]

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Garden report – weekend of May 2nd

This was a weekend in which I felt I did EVERYTHING I wanted to do. I usually try to have all my major garden changes done before Mother’s Day – window boxes freshened up with new flowers, “big” garden changes made (transplants, big purchases). That’s not to say I will stop buying new garden stuff […]

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(VIDEO) CBC asks authors an important question

May 4th through the 10th is Children’s Book Week. The Children’s Book Council asked gobs and gobs of authors, “What book made you a reader?” It’s a fun video full of references to many books you probably know and love. The video was filmed during the author signing sessions at the wonderful Books of Wonder […]

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Oh. My. God.

Peeps, I can’t even deal with the excitement of this. Today I saw… an iris bud!!! What?!? Every year, I am in a waiting game with my iris. I whisper to them and ask them please to bloom by Mother’s Day. Thus far, they have utterly ignored me. (Last year I’m pretty sure they mocked […]

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Happy Beltane

May 1st has been used for centuries for a variety of celebrations. Coming as it does between the spring equinox and the summer solstice, it is a good day for hope and plans. It’s been the date(-ish) for the celebration of Flora, goddess of spring in the pre-Christian era, May Day and International Workers Day, […]

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Running free

Yesterday’s post on nostalgia and the feeling that things “used to be better” left me thinking about how life has changed in the time since I was a child and teenager. It’s a fairly pervasive way of thinking that we live in more dangerous times. But do we? When I was five, one of my […]

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