Tiny flakes appeared just before the school bus this morning. By mid-morning, enough were falling to accumulate and the girls were enchanted and begging to go outside. 

The horses seemed less than enchanted. They stood like this for over an hour. Geez, guys, it wasn’t that cold.

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Edward has always been interested in art. He can’t help it. His mom (me) is an artist. One great-grandfather was a self-taught and talented painter. Another great-grandfather is a photographer. A great-grandmother was a jeweler. A grandma studied art, working in photography and painting.
So naturally, when the kid shows a keen interest in drawing and […]

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Dex has a birthday coming up very soon. The one thing he’s told me he wants is — TA DA! — on sale on Black Friday. When he told me about the sale, I thought he was joking. Har, har, honey, yeah I’ll get up at 5 am and hoof it out to the madness […]

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I had no idea! My favorite line in this article:
Her father described her as “my joy,” adding, “She helped me overcome the failures in all men, and to look beyond them.”
Read the whole article.

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Dex is across the room, snug in bed, whistling the theme song to The Titanic to get me inspired for tonight’s post. We were watching the tail end of it on HD, mostly because it was in HD. It was the scene where everyone is freezing to death in the water. A lifeboat returns to […]

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Honestly, I think the only way I can truly capture how sick - SICK - I am of this all is to tell you how sick I feel most of the time. My stomach aches and burns, my chest is tight and feels at times as though it might literally explode from the sheer pressure […]

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I have a blender in my mind today, scrambling all sorts of thoughts into one greenish goo. So much to think about … and yet I don’t feel like thinking about any of it. Or do I? I do but I am tired of there not being any definite answers.
 Yes, that’s it. I am tired […]

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I promised you some images of New England landscapes. Here is the first set of photos. I shoot a lot of these type of images from a moving car (shooting blindly, keeping my eyes on the road). I’ve found that if I don’t shoot while moving, I’m never able to get any images of most […]

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I am tired of thinking about and talking about the things that aren’t working and aren’t what I want for this family. I want to focus on what I do want. This is the vision of the life I want for us.

I want a house that gives us the space and layout to be comfortable […]

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To all who have served and are now serving, thank you.
Special thanks today to Jim and Mark, who are the current representatives of our family’s long history in military service.

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