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Ghost Stories
I have to get this down before I forget it. Alice wanted to "tell scary stories" tonight. I told her I don't know any scary stories, so she decided to tell me one. That kid has got an imagination big as...well, a 4-year-old's imagination, I guess.
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Peace
First beach trip of the new year today with Alex, Alice, Cye and Jenna. I feel scoured clean. The water was really much too cold for anything more than wading, but we all dove in for a few minutes anyway. So invigorating! It was quite windy, but the sun was out mostly and it was about 80 degrees, so we warmed up quick enough ( Read more... ) -
My Kinda Love Poem
This is the kind of love poem I love, the sideways love poem, the one that doesn't seem like a love poem at all except that it so clearly is: Caridad McCormick - What You Called to Say at Lunch. Maybe I just like that she compares her love to a prehistoric gorilla? :)
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Bayou
The new issue of Bayou came out this week. It includes my poem "Prophet," a narrative poem about my dad playing a practical joke on a neighbor. I sent one of my contributor's copies to my dad, and he called yesterday to talk about it. I think he liked that I wrote a poem about a story he told me, something funny. The poems I read about him at my ( Read more... ) -
'Nog
I wouldn't normally post two quizes in a row, but this was hilarious to me. Incidentally, the only way I like eggnog is in coffee instead of cream and sugar.
You Are Eggnog
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Family
We finally made it down to Port St. Lucie to check on Mistie, Ryan and Fiona. They seem to be settling in pretty well, although I think we wore them out a bit. I knew how much I missed Mistie and Ryan, but now I miss Fiona too.
Alice has been extremely excited about having a new baby cousin ever since she heard about Mistie's pregnancy, but when ( Read more... ) -
Bugs
This weekend we went to Cypress Gardens to see Willie Nelson. Before the concert we spent some time wandering around the park. A lot had changed since I last went there with my high school boyfriend and his parents 12 years ago, but one of the features I remembered was still there: the butterfly aviary. It was a rainy day, late in the afternoon, so ( Read more... ) -
Birthday
Our girl Fiona had a truly glorious birthday. I thought I'd post a few more pictures, of her and of the rest of us having fun celebrating her birth by acting like little children.
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Fiona Key
7 lbs 2 oz. 19 inches. Mommy, baby and all attendants are well if exhausted (we got up at 4:30 a.m. and were probably better rested than anyone there). This kid has so much love coming her way. We outnumbered other families in the waiting room 3 to 1 and broke every number-of-visitors-per-room rule ever invented.
Isn't she gorgeous?
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