Spirit Guides

When the boys were little, they loved to talk about spirit animals. I have no idea how it started, but it’s one of my favorite sources of interesting thoughts and questions. Plus I felt especially prepared when I was sipping wine at an afternoon winery work function and a colleague…

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Inside Jokes

Losing your best friend and partner since college is like breaking your heart and then losing half your brain. One day 50% of your knowledge and memories are stored safely in someone else’s noggin and then poof. You’ve lost where the water and gas hookups are at your house. Where…

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Easter

I love Easter. I love freesias and mini daffodils and ranunculus. I love Easter eggs and Easter dresses and Easter foods. Especially brunch foods like honey baked ham and cheesy au gratin potatoes and asparagus with lemony hollandaise sauce. And I love my mom’s coconut cream pie. From the moment…

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Know Your Peeps

As I’m general contracting the new house, my brain is constantly crunching construction. I’m getting to a place where things are progressing beyond house guts to the pretty. It’s had me thinking that sharing some thoughts and learnings could be helpful to others. So in honor of the two foot…

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Goldfish

After we were freed from Zoom School and the boys descended the mountain, our school system announced free meals. James and I gladly shoved the lunch bags to the darkest back corner of the deepest cupboard and embraced the simplification of our morning routine. True freedom and luxury can be…

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Little Tokyo

I’ve always found certain countries and cultures speak to certain souls. The first time I understood this phenomenon was Jamie A.’s mom’s love of France. I’d met my first Francophile. Then I noticed my dad’s an Anglophile. And my brother’s an Anglophile. Nathaniel is a third generation Anglophile. I recommend…

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Possibilities

It appears I’m an infinite font of stories featuring our local radio DJ, JoJo Lopez.  What up JoJo? Ugh, lesson learned.  Never google radio hosts.  The mismatch of voice to face is purely avoidable self-torture. So for a couple of weeks the boys and I have wanted to call into Talk-About-It-Tuesday.  This is where…

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Rochambeau

Lately Jacob is regularly accusing me of being “uncultured.”  It mostly stems from my complete lack of familiarity with globally popular memes, movie lines, and music. It’s the story of my life and I gave up worrying about it when I was his age.  I did not have MTV.  I’ve…

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