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“I’ll be back at Thanksgiving and I know it’s Dad’s holiday but I’ll come see you, too!” She spritzes herself with girl smells, maybe something fruity?, and checks her lip gloss in the visor mirror, then snaps it shut, shoves it back in place and turns her 100 watt smile at me. “Don’t worry!” she [...]

I started this week by inhaling the essence of the Queen of Sheba up my left nostril and was all, Oh, I only walk on 3inch padded long nap ecru Persian rugs and If you don’t peel my grapes, I’m going to banish you to a life of only reality television and morning radio shows [...]

There is this table in the kitchen that we never use for eating and while I was unpacking boxes and organizing everything in the kitchen and art room, I kept placing all my favorite things together, collecting them on that table.
After all the rest of the house was done, I looked around and didn’t really [...]

Every year, Alex and I try to get away for a weekend with my sister and her daughters where we can all be on our periods at the same time. Good times. This past October’s trip got pushed a few months into 2009.

We flew up last weekend to Rhoda’s and then drove up to [...]