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Happy heart.

{Photo by me} Song of a Once* Restless Heart Chicken and dumplings, Dinner with husband, Chilly fall night, Happy heart. Warm purring kitten, Warm pumpkin bread, Cooling cup of decaf, Happy heart. Faithful leap, Everything ventured, Happy heart. New house, Used car, New life, Happy heart. *And likely, future.

You don’t know me.

So, it’s Sunday and it’s been a crazy weekend and I’m struggling to get something up today. We got the bed (finally. Though when we got home with it we found the frame they gave us to be BROKEN and had to go back to Jordan’s YET AGAIN. We’re now on a first name basis [...]

Here’s hoping there’s cake.

Coconut Cake, Hominy Grill. Charleston, SC. Taken with Nikon D60, 40 mm. Happy weekending, friends. We should be down in Maryland by now, shaking our shoulders with the friends and the family. Stuffing our faces, raising our glasses. I’m planning a full recap tomorrow but for now, here’s hoping you find your weekend full of sleep-filled [...]

Back.

Aloha, my lovelies, I have returned after a most glorious stay in paradise and before that, a most spectacular wedding. I plan on recapping it all for you over the coming days and weeks but for now, my jetlag is firmly dragging me to bed. I missed you though. I missed a lot of things. [...]

Ciao, baby.

Well kids, that’s it for me for a little while. Soon I’ll be leaving on a jet plane for my aforementioned, much-needed beach vacation. But I guess I have some sort of guilt complex or something because I couldn’t bear the thought of leaving you all in silence with nothing to entertain you so yesterday [...]

On umbrellas and aging.

The sun has been hopping in and out of the clouds so much today, like some kind of bratty kid hyped up on sugar playing hide-and-go-seek and I feel like the grumpy old granny who’s babysitting him thinking, “You know kid, I wish you’d find some really good, remote hiding place so I can enjoy [...]

Dahlias, our city.

                  I walked my bouquet of dahlias Down to the pantry to get fresh water Trailing petals through the office.                             We  walked through this city, our city On a day so achingly vivid [...]

Fed up.

I woke up at 4 am this morning to a crack of thunder and the sound of rain on our air conditioner, which sounds like someone two stories up dropping quarters on a metal box right next to your eardrum when it’s drizzling, but when it’s pouring, sounds more like a machine gun is being [...]

Thanks for the music, MJ.

Fair warning: this is the blog post where I talk about Michael Jackson.  I have a few things I’d like to say. But if you hate Michael Jackson or are just plain sick of all the coverage – fair enough. Feel free to slink away now. (But please come back, I still love you.) Ahem. [...]

Productivity overload.

The boy and I spent the whole of yesterday organizing our hallway closet and generally cleaning our apartment/de-cluttering our life, which for us meant five hours of sweeping, Swiffering and sweating and me being all, “C’mon, faster!” and him being all, “Let me organize, woman!” It ended up being a productive day to the point [...]