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It’s 7:13 pm and I’m looking for a photo to share for a blog post that goes live in 47 minutes. I really need to get more pro-active. In my defense, we recently moved, I had a *gulp* birthday this week, and a bunch of (some?) people are coming over Saturday for a party. Because, […]

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Sometimes, when you hear stories about a grandparent when you’re young, you tune them out, and only remember parts. It’s not until you want to share family history with your own child that those stories become interesting again. On our drive from Virginia to Colorado, we stopped in Dayton, Ohio, where my dad grew up. […]

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Unfortunately, worrying comes easily to me. I worry about catastrophes in my absence (because if I’m there, either I’ll be able to stop them with my yet undiscovered superpowers…or think, “at least we’ll all die together.”). When Tucker was young, the first time I traveled without him, I worried the tree in front of our […]

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This summer has been different from most summers in that we’ve had a lot of summertime change, grief, and a hero name tag. Summertime Change Change of scenery, of home, and of where the drawer that holds my silverware is. It’s the summer we moved from Northern Virginia (a suburb of DC) to Colorado, where […]

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Today, I created three new recycling bags of packing paper looking for a photo of my brother and I with my grandparents. I won’t give any more away because I’ll use that photo one of these weeks. Speaking of packing paper… I unwound a huge taped-up wad of it to find a charging cord, a […]

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My bed is upstairs. Broken. Which breaks me a little. Feels stupid and first-world, but that’s where I am. Angry because the people that moved it broke the footboard that never should’ve been disassembled in the first place. This bed’s moved nine times now, and nobody’s ever taken it apart so completely. The guy who […]

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