Gardening for the soul

I worked in my garden tonight until the darkness of the sky met the black soil beneath my feet. My husband and I were digging out the Bermuda grass that had jumped from the yard into the garden and has prospered there year after year. It’s the most stubborn grass to have when you don’t [...]

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Fall is coming

We’ve had cooler, drier weather lately, which has enticed me to open the windows and enjoy the sneak preview of fall. Early in the evening before darkness settles in, cicadas hum their lazy late-summer song. After dark they’re followed by the nighttime symphony of crickets, whose chirps are so soothing and peaceful, I fall asleep listening to [...]

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Relaxing weekend

I had a nice, relaxing weekend after a busy week in Anaheim, California, for the ALA Annual Conference. I was wiped out after flying back overnight Tuesday, zipping through 4 timezones in fifteen hours and arriving in my hometown Wednesday morning– without any sleep. I was so sleepy I was dizzy. I thought connected chairs without [...]

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Summer is here

I think I put away my winter coat for the last time this spring. It had been riding around in my car for several days because earlier last week, my son had an evening baseball game and the weather was still cool enough (to me) to justify wearing a winter coat. I think I can [...]

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Family vacation

A few weekends ago, I tried to use the Internet to begin planning our family vacation. Most years we don’t go anywhere for vacation because the kids have always played baseball and softball. But this year we decided to see if I had enough frequent flier miles to purchase tickets so we could fly out west. I [...]

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Letting go

I don’t know which is harder: letting go of my children as they get older or keeping myself from turning into my mother, who still keeps a watchful eye on me even as I enter middle age. Nothing I do (or don’t do) doesn’t escape her notice or comment.
Ever since my kids were too old [...]

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Let the camps begin!

Summer camps begin this week now that school is out for the summer. My son will be attending a baseball camp, an ISTEP enrichment class, and hopefully later this summer, a basketball camp and maybe even forensic science classes at a local technical school. My daughter will be attending a cheer camp for her high school team, taking [...]

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