Where seeds of thought have room to grow
Category: Call me mom
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According to our friend's GPS program, our house doesn't exist. No matter how he typed in our address…"Adrian Way", "Adrian Boulevard"…it said there was no such place. I knew we lived in a beautiful place…even magical at times…but I guarantee it's not Narnia or Oz. Our mail gets delivered, for goodness sakes. Granted, it's put in a…
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First clue: TG heard a scratching sound in the attic above her bathroom. Tom grabbed a ladder and climbed on the roof. Sure enough, a squirrel came shooting out of a teensy one inch gap in a seam up there, surprising the you-know-what out of him. Armed with screening and I don't know what else,…
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Between now (getting home from work, sipping on a warmed-up cup of coffee to see me through the evening and counter the effects of all the antihistamine I'm having to take for the cedar) and when I need to leave for class, I have about an hour… That's an hour to start dinner (only start – I'll…
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The deep voice coming up out of the stairwell startled me this morning - Tom and Kendall were still asleep. No one else was home. Who could it be? But before I even had a chance to throw a butcher knife or something, Daniel's head (smiling face), then shoulders, then the rest of him appeared coming up…
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This is the year that the majority of my high school classmates and I cross over into our second half century of life. Some have slipped there quietly, others have faced it head-on with weekends in places like Vegas or the Caribbean or on a cruise ship. One guy, Roy, is in Colorado as we speak, and…well…he says…
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Tommy was barely two weeks old when the most awful wave of out-of-control mother's anxiety/premonition overwhelmed me, and I burst into tears. I know it was just the combination of overactive hormones on an overactive imagination, (think gasoline on a fire), but my thoughts flew far into the future, to a world at war and my baby son all grown up and…
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Leslie: "Why aren't you on Facebook?" me: "Huh? Are YOU on Facebook?" Leslie: "Yeah. EVERYONE is! Darla, Ann, both Ginas…" It turns out my friends have been partying without me… Now, it just so happens I had been thinking about getting on Facebook for a couple of weeks. My friend Kim had sent in invitation asking me…
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The countdown has begun. In a few short hours, it will be a brand new year – the last one in the first decade of the 21st century…this will be the year of my 50th birthday, my baby's high school graduation, and who knows what else. The past few years, Tom and I have a hosted a New…
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He had white hair (evident on his head and even his pubic area) and small tattoos on his hands in that spot between his thumb and his pointer fingers. The fine print on the sign outside the entrance says he and the other bodies on display gave permission for their bodies to be used in this way,…
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Daniel, Kendall, and I have to decide what to do, which means we have to agree. We're at my parents' house in Pasadena right now – we came in yesterday for our Pasadena Christmas, a quick trip because Daniel and I have to work tomorrow, and Mama had to get another injection this morning to help…
Long Hollow 