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today is kieran's first day of second grade. he's ready. he was excited and nervous about meeting his new teacher and seeing how t...

lord, how i miss writing! someone left a comment on a post here from last fall, which made me go back and look at the post. and at last ye...

i am not usually one for new year's resolutions, but there are some changes i want to make, and this seems as good a time to start as an...

my mother tells me that the DA's office would like each of the surviving children to write a letter detailing how the loss of our father...

there is mud on my desk from photographing the boot my father was wearing when he died, for the insurance company. my heart is as heavy as h...

it's almost the end of march, many months after my last post. i have no idea how time passes as quickly as it does. this has been a full...

it was a nice morning out, and everyone was a little tired of playing in the house... so we decided to head to the park, which the littles...

tomorrow marks the end of the 3rd week since we became a temporary family of 5, and i have to say, it's going far more smoothly than i e...

i can't BELIEVE finn is two today! this birthday has snuck up on me a bit in the midst of all the family upheaval related to kaiya's...

change is familiar to all of us. life evolves, and we either run with it or we fall down and let it run over us. that sounds like a cliche, ...

i have been making coleslaw for years, and yet, i've never been happy with it. i've tried recipe after recipe, and never loved the r...

NOTE: i started writing this back in january. it's now april, and i am just getting around to finishing it. this is an indication of a) ...

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i guess i missed a couple of weeks there--i am doing a LOT of local cooking, but the blogging part is often hard for me to keep up with. esp...