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It was the first week of April and I was busy. Busy with a flooded basement, a job, two teenagers, and the what-nots of life. On this particular evening, I was going up and down the basement stairs dumping buckets of water I had sucked up with the shop-vac. I… Continue Reading Lyme or Cause Unknown
I received this email tonight (along with another 30 or so impersonal emails): Kindly be informed that Late Engr. Lukas Jonas Würth made you a beneficiary (bequested USD$20,100,000.00) in his WILL. Reply to this email: barr.adamuk@______.com for estate execution. Legal partner take note. Signed: K. A. Adam (Esq.) I barely… Continue Reading I Used to Believe in Unicorns
Sometimes life throws you a curve ball, and if you’re not ready you it shoots right past you leaving you empty handed. It stinks, but you can catch the next one with some practice. Sometimes life throws you a fast ball and the inexperienced has to dodge or be hit… Continue Reading Playing Catch With Life
I miss libraries. There are few times in my life that I miss, probably because there have been many hard times, but I loved when my children were young and I stayed home with them. I love the term, “stay at home mom”, as though “mom” needs any sort of… Continue Reading Libraries and Motherhood
Nick
So Woman Remodeled and I were talking on the phone last night and I was on one of my usual spiels about something frightening, maddening, and even depressing. In this case, it was our tanking economy. She was firm in her optimism, and I firm in my resolve to get… Continue Reading The Truth of Matters
Nick
Sitting in a cafe, pondering stuff, feeling the pulse of the place and realized it’s almost Tuesday and I haven’t written here in a few days. There’s not much cohesive to write about but I could share a random sampling of tidbits. Actually, there are a few posts brewing underground,… Continue Reading Almost Tuesday
1. Forget to pay the utility bill and then act surprised when the computer won’t turn on in the morning. (For a double flunk, find a way to blame it on the children!) 2. Sleep through your alarm and get to work an hour and a half late. (For a… Continue Reading How to Flunk "Being a Grown Up 101"
Nick
12:30 and I’m fading but I’ve still got pages to write. I need coffee but since I only drink it on a blue moon I’ve got none to brew. I get in the car hoping something is open. I am still every inch a Northeast Kingdom (where they roll up… Continue Reading 12:30 AM – The Coffee
Our elementary school was starting a band program. Everyone on the bus was all abuzz after the day’s assembly where the instruments were paraded out and played before our wondering eyes and ears. “I’m going to play the flute,” says one girl, bouncing in her seat. “Me too!” parrot several… Continue Reading How Velvet Verbosity Came to Play the Trombone
Across the deep, dark, Vermont lake that is fabled to be home to loch ness’s brother, lights twinkle, nestled in the mountain. They are the lights of a home, winking to us in our little log cabin across the way as we fall asleep. There are eight of us, three… Continue Reading 100 Words On Holiday Nostalgia – Across the Lake
