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To pick up and start saying, again, “It’s been so long since I wrote…!” would do very little but state the obvious and make me feel sheepish even to be updating again.

I spent some time, before writing this, updating the site’s appearance. It had literally not been updated since I ( Read more... )

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Lovely Lincoln, Nebraska! When I first started planning this trip, I realized I would have a chance to visit some friends in faraway places while I was at it. And, if those friends were particularly generous, I might even have a few nights here and there where I’d be free of hotels ( Read more... )

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When I was in the first grade, my Mom decided to make me a Halloween costume. Like, a hand-sewn one, from a pattern. My brief forays into Halloween prior to that year had been the plastic-mask-and-pajamas type deals you got at the drug store.

I’m not sure why my mother decided to do ( Read more... )

This weekend, my Mom and I made our annual trip to Ohio to visit my aunt and uncle.

( Weekend rambling here. )

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I don’t tell this story that often, because I don’t feel like it’s entirely mine to tell. My grandmother passed away years ago, however, and I’m sure she wouldn’t mind me sharing the story with you.

When I was maybe ten, twelve years old tops, my mother and grandmother and I took a ( Read more... )

It was a lovely long weekend and holiday; I hope you had a lovely holiday too!

( Details on the long weekend, at least the ones I can remember. )

For whatever reason, I totally forgot to update yesterday. So here's the weird weekly check-in with RobPisces Horoscope for week of November 18, 2010 ( Read more... )

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I fear I have been remiss in posting here, not for lack of anything to say, but more for lack of time to put it all into words. Life feels busy to me, and fulfilling, if not without frustration - overall, it feels good, and whole.

But I’ve felt it coming for a while now. Vacation. ( Read more... )

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Last weekend I traveled to Alliance, Ohio with my mother, to visit my aunt and uncle. It was a good weekend, if sometimes an emotional one. It was the first time we had seen them since Dad’s funeral - my father’s sister and her husband traveled down here to meet up for a hard visit ( Read more... )

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The past two years on Valentine’s Day, I’ve taken a look at love outside of romantic love. You can take a look at 2008’s and 2009’s musings, if you’d like. When I sat down to think about love this year, the first thing to come to mind was family.

It’s not surprising. It was a ( Read more... )