Today, I’m joining Emily for the last of Tuesdays Unwrapped for the year. I love this exercise of looking at the small and ordinary parts of life with fresh eyes. ………………………………… My mother-in-law once told me that she grew up “happy and content as a cow”. She never looked beyond her everyday life and wished for something more. She felt…
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When there’s no fast-pass to the end of the drive
We have a long and narrow driveway. Our house sits back from the street, and it takes the length of (insert some sort of football field reference), before your reach our garage. It’s the type of driveway that makes you cringe when it snows, because you know the length of it might kill you, and you don’t really want to die…
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Losing Sabbath
Our first three-day holiday weekend living in Switzerland was the worst. We sat around eating bowls of dry cereal that tasted like sawdust, while the kids cast mournful glances at the refrigerator and my husband gave helpful suggestions such as “Maybe you should stock up on food in advance. You know, plan for the weekend?” After resisting the urge to…
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Ghosts of days past
Six weeks ago, my husband gave me a roll of film (the old-fashioned kind), and asked me to drop if off at our local drug store. I received this roll with fear and trembling, as I knew its importance. My mother-in-law found it a few days earlier in a camera belonging to her late husband. It’s the last roll of…
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When your kids believe in your work more than you do
Today, I’m joining Emily Freeman as we take every Tuesday for the month of December to unwrap the gifts of our ordinary days. Join us? ………………………….. Under the coffee table, next to a stack of books I hope to read and a college-rule notebook filled with a list of submissions and rejections from various publishers and agents, sits a piece…
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