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friends

• Being Mormon, daughters, friends, Sally

  Three can be the loneliest number

  04.22.11 | Permalink | 5 Comments

  Yesterday Avery and I had a long talk that left us in tears at the same time it made me glad to be here, glad to be her mother. My daughter has a “best friend” who will apparently think she is weak and a crybaby if she does not join her in being mean to [...]

• friends

  She’s just not that into you

  02.23.09 | Permalink | 47 Comments

  I’ve been really lucky to live in some odd places. Places where it was easy to find friends because there were only a few of us in the same situation, even after I left college, where you pretty much live with friends and learn with friends and work with friends. Places where the choice is [...]

• blogging, friends, Jane

  BlogHop ’08. (No, Mom, I don’t have any friends in real life) (Happy now?)

  07.19.08 | Permalink | 16 Comments

  A couple days ago, my only friend who lives near enough to swap babysitting with moved. We’d like to move too, but haven’t found the right house to buy. I’ve lived in at least 23 different places, and I confess sometimes I ignore my neighbors, because, well, they probably won’t be my neighbors for long. [...]

• Family, friends

  Friends like sisters

  03.20.08 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  We drove to Arizona yesterday for Spring Break. Woohoo! Break out the booze and the bikinis! Except we don’t do either of those things, and if we HAD done those things in the past, they probably wouldn’t mix so well with three freckle-prone kids. What’s in Arizona? Not much, but March is definitely the right [...]

• beauty products, friends, reviews

  Tara Thinks at Chic-Critique

  03.04.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  I have to say (and can’t tell you how mad I am that someone else thought of using that as a great blog name) that I don’t usually have much use for beauty and fashion products. Right, like you couldn’t tell that from looking at me. Anyway, my dear friend Tara is guest posting at [...]