Where seeds of thought have room to grow
Category: Call me mom
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I've been home alone for the past few days, holding down the fort, while the rest of my bunch have been out having Spring Break fun. I didn't begrudge them heading out for fun and adventure while I had to work – I take an annual Fall Break, an escape to the coast with girlfriends.…
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Tommy's cough was back, worse than before, poor baby. No preschool for him tomorrow; that meant one of us would have to stay home with him, give him nebulizer treatments every four hours. Probably take him back to the doctor. I hoped he wouldn't need another round of Prednisone. "I took off work last time," Tom…
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Old books are precious treasure for me, no matter what the subject. Art within and without. A window where I can peer straight into history. My son recently took possession of these. He feels the same as I do about books. Even old books. I can see it in his eyes. And I can't…
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Max, curled up in his huge porch bed, stared out into the nearby woods. Belle lay nearby, stretched out in the dirt, gnawing on a piece of Dad's firewood. Beyond her, Max spotted a squirrel sneaking closer and closer, determined to scavenge a bit of bird seed from the ground under the feeder. He'd done his…
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When Belle first peered through the French doors at me this morning, eager for our walk, the Hollow was still dark and blanketed in fog. It was beautiful but eerie … the new sunlight created a world of gray. Silhouettes of trees were specters lining the back ridge. The fog had begun to lift by…
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It was while standing at the kitchen counter first thing this morning, pouring water into the coffee pot and still mostly asleep, that I glanced up and spotted the open door. And I remembered: She's gone again. After weeks of being mostly here, of holidays and work days and carpools and visits to the library…
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Dear Miss Belle, It's hard for me to imagine now, watching you run down the road in front of me in that funny way you have, where your rear-end flies up higher than your head, that I ever debated the puppy question at all. When I see Max's face light up at the sight of…
Long Hollow 