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A Big Beautiful Betrayal and Pursuing Joy Anyway
Checking in, friends. Especially friends here in the USofA. You doing OK? You hanging in there? You finding ways to cope and breathe and function in this crazy upside-down world? I don’t know about you, but the Big Beautiful Betrayal hit me pretty hard this week on both a macro and micro level. I mean,…
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We Can Have Nice Things, Just Not the Nice Things We Planned
Spent months hunting for the right patio furniture so I could create the exact configuration I wanted for the space I have at a price point I was willing to pay. The other pieces have been assembled primarily from Facebook Marketplace, Goodwill, and free giveaways over the years. If I could, I’d live outdoors 24/7.…
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Announcing: Two Grads, Better Late Than Never?
Just over here really testing the “better late than never” theory by sending Cai and Cael’s graduation announcements weeks after their graduation. In other words, situation normal. I can confirm that all the other grad moms I know had their shit together and sent theirs well before graduation. I’m just here to provide a service…
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Time isn’t linear, friends. It can’t be, because sometimes, for sure, we live the past and the present simultaneously. It’s one of the great gifts of age, this time machine we use to traverse our lifetimes and the fact that, occasionally, someone can traverse it with us.
I’ve known this guy since I was 10 and he was 12. We were siblings immediately and argued like it to prove it. We went to the same boarding schools in Indonesia and the Philippines and spent our school holidays in the highlands of Papua, Indonesia, where our families lived next door to each other.…