Category Archives: Huge very big things

I knew this would happen

Laurel just read a book. She didn’t just read the words of an old familiar book in our collection, which she’s been doing for months. From memory. She read a new book she’d never seen before. I picked out some … Continue reading

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Week 5: Awww, crap.

Here we are again, slugging back four 4oz cups of water at the water cooler in the doctor’s office. Walking back to the room with tiny packets of castille soap and small plastic bottles to dangle precipitously under my body … Continue reading

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A Decade of Schmoop!

Exactly 3,592 days ago today, Allen and I did a very simple thing: We exchanged vows and rings in a very humble and private manner at the courthouse in Pensacola, Florida. We have no photos to mark the occasion. But … Continue reading

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95

In the year 1913, on Tuesday, July 15, Virginia Reynolds was born. It was an auspicious year to be born. Stainless steel was invented. Rosa Parks was born. And Harriet Tubman died. It was the year that the first Women’s … Continue reading

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Underwater!

In the short list of things I do well that doesn’t include making coffee so strong that it can change your gender, I would list the following: Diagram sentences Independent eyebrow movement Procrastinate Write Swim Now, you probably knew the … Continue reading

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