Month: July 2024
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Sweet Dreams, Wiggleworms
One of the advantages of living close to your parents is that you can go out, spend the night away, Trusting, umm, knowing your children are sleeping sideways in your parent’s bed, kicking and wiggling. Sweet dreams are not assured.…
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An Empty Nest is All Aflutter
Chelsea left home at 17 to go to University, and Sacha left home to have a gap year right after high school graduation. The house was uncomfortably quiet. The milk carton in the fridge was full, the toilet paper roll was…
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A Day in Provence
Cassis Back Streets. Cassis is a vibrant town with an active local habitants. Do you know that most the restaurants are own and worked by locals? Poppies are the first Provencal flower to bloom, usually in May and sparingly in…
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Winnie Pig
(photo via Guinea Pig by Guinea Dad) My friend Erika told Yann, “You will be our guinea pig.” Yann, with a perplexed look on his face, quipped, “So, what’s this about a Winnie Pig?” Erika and I could not hold…
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Objects That Speak
The items we hold on to may not always be the most valuable, but they hold a special place in our hearts. I have my dad’s old tee shirt, my children’s baby teeth, a holy water font from my grandparents’…
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Me, Myself and I
“What they call you is one thing, What you answer to is something else.” This part of a poem by Lucille Cliffton struck me—it went right on in and brought a moist feeling to my eyes. I know, I know,…