Happy Halloween! I offer y’all the best wish I can think of this Halloween night: May your collection of Halloween candy be mostly all chocolate. Enjoy the bounty, y’all!
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Summer Vacation: A Backward Glance
In her autobiographical work A Backward Glance, Edith Wharton quotes Henry James as saying, “Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.†With summer vacation long gone and summer’s official days waning fast, I must tip my hat to James, a man after my own […]
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Girl Meets West #1: What a Difference a Plane Makes
Some of you are familiar with my series of posts from last summer’s road trip entitled We Went Off. You can go here to start the series and find out a bit about our personal story and why that trip out West was somewhat of a BIG DEAL if you’d like, but the slightly shorter […]
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The Summer List for 2015
Every year I create a list of small ways to celebrate the summer season, a practice of mine that dates back to my Chicago days. When I began blogging, I started posting my lists and trying to come up with a fresh series of ideas each year. However, after only coming up with three new […]
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Coffee with Christine: There Was Toilet Paper on My Shoe
Grab your coffee quickly; I’m leading with the best part today. Recently, while in the bathroom at school, a piece of toilet paper managed to adhere itself to my shoe. For the record, I’m confident the toilet paper did not belong to me. I really don’t want to know its origins. (I know; I’ve just […]
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To All the Moms
Happy Mother’s Day to all moms everywhere! (This especially includes my own.)