summer vacation | summer vacation
Jul.30.2012
I'm in the countdown mode. Only ten days of freedom remain before I am hitched to the plow, and pulling that heavy workload again.
This has been a good summer. The best I've had in many years. I started my summer break with a trip to Georgia with my two sons. The time together was rare, and very...
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Jul.21.2012
Something changed this summer.
I've started taking note of beauty. Natural beauty. No straight lines and enclosing fences. A grand chaos of smells and noises and sensations that can only be found in places far from the madding crowd.
It didn't used to be like this. Summer was the busiest time of...
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Jun.13.2012
The first day of summer vacation was great!
I didn't have to wake to an alarm, instead I was greeting by the gentle light of the sun peeking through my curtains.
I made a pot of coffee and while it brewed I watched the cat stalk through the tall grasses in the backyard, looking for lizards. As a...
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Jun.13.2012
There’s an old family video where my brother-in-law wrangles my husband to the ground again and again. I can picture the young man with his Andy Gibb hair spilling out of his cap, swinging that lasso with a sure arm, and before you could say – “Cowboy bites the dust” – my husband has done a face...
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Jun.06.2012
I am so tired of thinking, answering questions, making decisions;I don't want to make any decisions or answer any questions beyond,"do you want more coffee?"
The fatigue is bone deep, and my brain is fried.When I'm sleeping I'm dreaming about work,graduations, kids, jobs, money, and being...
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May.21.2012
Summer has officially begun at my house. No, it isn’t June 20th. But, it is the day my granddaughter, Emma gets out of school for the summer. I cannot believe another school year is over. And, in only eleven weeks it will all start over again.
When I was a youngster summer vacation...
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Sep.04.2011
Back to School in Connecticut
The drive back from where ever we happened to have gone for the summer seemed to go by in crawling seconds, each one of us fighting for the window seat and then elbowing each other if we were in the...
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Aug.13.2011
Bottom line: I rewrote my novel, twice almost. The first big push was during finals week and a writing workshop I held at my house. And then, this week, when I was visiting my older son. Nothing, it seems, happens when I'm wondering what rerun I can watch on Showtime. No,...
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Jul.12.2011
Rockport, Massachusetts, with just under eight thousand year round residents, sits on the tip of a peninsula called Cape Ann that extends ten miles East into the Atlantic Ocean and is accessible by car, train, or boat. If you arrive by car, listening to WEEI Sports Radio, you travel 30 miles north...
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Jul.02.2011
Notorious homebodies that we are, Art Boy and I don't travel all that much. Summer is here, the fruit trees are ripening, the succulents are blooming, the kitties are frisking about; why would we leave? But when we do-like our recent trip to the wilds of Spooner, WI, for a family reunion-we try to...
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