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I know, I know, it's been a long time since I've written, and it seems an odd place to start: why I failed to write. But I think that knowing why I failed and stopped for so long, and understanding it is really the only way I can figure out how to avoid those failure modes and get back to writing in a way that rewards me again.
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Or Many Things...

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We had a little time with Jet between the Hawaii trip and the end of the Christmas break, which was nice and we had one adventure during that time that was pretty amazing. I'd bought tickets in October for the Monet exhibit at the Denver Art Museum, titled The Truth of Nature. The full photo album can be found if you follow this link.

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The move for Mom and Dad went really well. With John's organization and the fact that they'd been working on it for months, there was only the last little bit to do. But we helped them with the last bit, and John did the labeling and put up signs for where all the furniture was supposed to go in the new place. The move itself only took three hours ( Read more... )

Wanted to check in and say that Jet is safely and happily in Mines, my Mom and Dad are safely moved into Vi and have settled in enough to be truly happy there, and that John and I have finally landed in our house, with all our boxes and boxes and boxes of Stuff.

Except...


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It took more than four days to finally complete, but I guess in a way we'd really started the preparations more than eighteen years ago ( Read more... )

So when we realized just how much time we were going to be spending in Karen's basement, we decided to do some traveling. Not as much as we thought we might have to do when we thought we'd be living on the road until our house was done, but more than we would if we'd been able to move straight into the new house ( Read more... )

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