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  Nine Lessons from an Electricity Fast

  07.19.10 | Permalink | 7 Comments

  For 40 days we limited our use of electricity. We made exceptions for food preparation and clothes washing. We (the kids and I) were 100% successful only on no dishwasher, TV, and computer. I hung my laundry to dry every day but one, when I ran four batches through the dryer after recovering from bronchitis. The [...]

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  Solo

  05.18.10 | Permalink | 9 Comments

  The take-the-pedals-off, lower-the-seat, and let-them-scoot method really works. Susan spent probably a total of thirty minutes, last fall and this spring, practicing balancing on her bike. This is her third run with the pedals back on. I love her oblivious pedaling away, knees all scrunched up, and Tom’s watchful scurrying behind her. Sometimes when I’m [...]

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  Surrender

  03.25.10 | Permalink | 5 Comments

  We were having lunch with Chrysanthemum yesterday, after our walk, because they just got toys off KSL for their backyard. And because I like her, of course. Especially her food that appears magically on the table before me as I play with her chubby-handed baby. Dimples on the knuckles of a baby are maybe the [...]

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  It doesn’t have to be that way

  12.09.09 | Permalink | 32 Comments

  Today’s Motherlode blog is fairly appalling to me. It’s a guest post by a lady who has been happily married for six years, mother to a 2-year old and a baby. Her family’s “dirty secret” is that her husband has an illegitimate 10 year-old son from a previous relationship. The father pays child support, but [...]

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  Blood will tell

  11.01.09 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  Last night I had a call from my brother. He sounded the same as always: cheerful, a bit abrupt, but then we are a family of abruptness and tersity on the phone. Several months ago my dad copied my cell phone message, so that if you call him you’ll hear him state his name and [...]

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  Love of my life

  09.28.09 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  Sometimes I would like to think that I have Tourette’s Syndrome, because the things that come out of my mouth when I am tired or hungry or cranky are shocking, or would be, if my poor family were not already inured to the sound of the f-word exploding from my lips. If I felt I [...]

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  and I have had plenty of bright sunshine over the years

  06.15.09 | Permalink | 8 Comments

  My mother-in-law is having cataract surgery tomorrow, and she has kept me informed about the procedure and plans. Since we moved to Utah almost two years ago, we haven’t been able to see Dick’s mom and sister and our nieces, and I miss them. (And my brother-in-law and nephew. Grampa we have seen, and wasn’t [...]

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