I heard from him the other day. Not unsolicited, of course. No, I’ve hardly ever heard from him out of the blue like that. Even when I was working for him, emails from Rick Springfield only appeared in my box with the inevitable re: in front of whatever subject title I had been writing about. [...]
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On Easter Sunday, my husband and I took our children to Mass, as we do every Sunday. I wasn’t born Catholic, and I haven’t always been a regular churchgoer even after I became one. But we love our church here, mostly thanks to the wonderful priests who run the place. I originally became a Catholic [...]
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Outside it is pouring rain. My son pointed out, as we waited in the warmth of my SUV at the end of our longish driveway for his bus this morning, that pouring rain is his least favorite weather. For him, it is because his sensitive sensory system makes the wetness that results on his skin [...]
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I lost my job yesterday. It’s not a huge job, mind you. I’ve been working on and off at our local children’s art studio for five years. Jill and I started working together after she allowed me to host a Kyle Vincent concert at her studio in late 2006. I didn’t know her then; a [...]
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I have notebooks from when I was younger…my journals. At times when I was chronicling My Former Life (lives?) they were at times helpful in remembering those long forgotten details of those dusty memories from so long ago. And most of them include a few New Year’s Day entries, most of them either trying to [...]
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It’s quiet. It’s just the same as it used to always be here in our house….two kids amusing themselves, windows open on an unseasonably warm fall day, homework done, husband at work. Relaxing. Peaceful. Blissfully quiet. Except that now all of that quiet seems disconcerting. Too quiet. It’s because my eldest, Zachary, is gone. Zachary [...]
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Bizarre. There are days that I can’t believe this is my life…today feels like one of them. I am killing time before my morning PTO meeting at the middle school. I’m going there as a member of the “Executive Board” which sounds impressive but basically means that I’ve branded myself as a sucker that can [...]
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“So Mom, do you think that you’ll be going back to teaching or something now that Michael is doing better in school?” asked my eldest son, home for the in between of his college days and his working days. I understand why it’s on his mind. He has spent every day since his graduation last [...]
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“Can I talk to you?” R asked, not looking up from his computer screen. “Sure,” I said, drawing out the word to show my confusion at the request. It was a warm Saturday afternoon in August, and I was bustling around with laundry and tidying. The kids were watching TV downstairs in the artificial cool [...]
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I looked at the clock as I rolled over in bed. 3:37 am. I sat upright. R was not in the bed next to me. What the hell? It was the second week in April, which meant for my husband that he was working late. ”Quarter close” became synonymous in our household for excused absences [...]
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