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Favorite Household Object: Dresser

I was lying on oldest child’s bed, contemplating cleaning her room, when I noticed how nice the dresser looked, in its new shade of deep purple.

Favorite Household Object: Dewott

“What is her name?” I asked youngest child, waving the blue stuffed thing.

Writing Trouble: Red Flower

I'm always looking for advice on how to deal with the dark days, and here's a quote from the title essay of Barbara Kingsolver's essay collection, High Tide in Tucson, that I especially like:

Brief Works

Our So-Called Illustrious Past

I went to London not to see the queen, but to find the Dutch baronet from whom we were all descended.

Confession of Choice

The first time I was pregnant when I didn't want to be, I was a college senior.

Sanguine

Health care in America: even my doctor lines up for the community multiphasic blood screening, rather than going to the regular lab.