I love my new grown-up living room. It's calming somehow. I can't wait to get home to my quiet apartment in the evening. The sounds of NPR or the local jazz station waft through the air while I fix and enjoy dinner before ending the night curled in my chair with a book and a cup of tea. It's just lovely ( Read more... )

Three weeks. Seems so much longer than that and yet it all seems to have happened in an instant. One week. That's how long I've been home. Only one week? That just doesn't seem possible to me. Everything here is still some sort of surreal experience removed from time. The days are simultaneously filled with an incompletable to-do list while ( Read more... )

I found three four-leaf clovers today. Then, tonight I got to talk to my amazing boy and two of the best friends I could possibly wish for.

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toithakaThese two ladies are absolutely wonderful, and I don't get to see or spend nearly enough time with either of them. I love each of you so, so, so much and I so blessed you are in my life ( Read more... )

. Sorry about leaving the last post as one of ‘gloom and doom.’ I did finally make it to Texas and back again after a week or so of what could be termed part comedy of errors, part exercise in not sweating the small stuff. I finally left Florence late on Wednesday, and as I watched the sunrise over an Arkansas highway early Thanksgiving morning ( Read more... )