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Christmas-booty minty fresh

We took the girls over to the Portland International Speedway the other evening to see their Christmas-light display.  It’s a drive-through event, and you pay $16.00 per carload to drive slowly around the racetrack, headlights extinguished, oohing and aahing happily at the various light displays.  That’s the idea, anyway.

We went last year, and …Christmas-booty minty fresh


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    Yielding

    Another piece of me I am pleased to bring back home.  This post appeared first over at Cheryl’s house back in March of this year as part of a series celebrating moments in which one feels what it truly is to be someone’s mother.

    Yielding

    A hospital room.

    Unconscious.

    So small beneath the sheet.  …Yielding

    Majjed upon me

    OK, so I wrote this story and it turned out to be a longer post than I usually write.  So then I was all . . . Well, I guess I could split it up into 2 or 3 posts.

    Except there is not much in this world I hate more than a To …Majjed upon me

    Fictional frost

    Lunches packed, dogs fed, paper fetched from the driveway, coffee brewed . . . she pulled her robe tight against the early-morning cold and breathed in the silence.

    In the few quiet moments before the life that was hers descended the stairs and engulfed her, she stared through a window obscured.

    The single-paned window …Fictional frost

    Unos doses mileys

    A long long time ago . . .

    I am happily singing a song.

    Happily singing a song in that way one does when one is newly in a relationship and determined to demonstrate to the new other person that one is confident and carefree and also wildly musically talented in an extremely secretive …Unos doses mileys