Archive for July, 2007
Monday, July 30th, 2007
Back from summer vacation
It was a lovely time, really.
We all went to the Cape, rented the same little house we always rent, went to the beach nearly every day where we plopped down in the sand with our sand chairs and our new cooler (the kind that has wheels) and our umbrellas. We ate steamers and drank beer […]
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Friday, July 20th, 2007
Up in the middle of the night
I am up in the middle of the night tonight, revising my novel–the one that I’ve been working on for a year, and which got done, and then, like so many of them do, somehow came undone. It’s a little like a sweater that someone pulled one stitch out of: I went to fix some […]
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Sunday, July 15th, 2007
I’m just saying…
I write about how much I’m going to re-train myself to love the summer–all the good and the bad it has to offer–and then today I get bitten by a Lyme tick, a huge thunderstorm warning comes up in the afternoon, AND my sunburn starts peeling.
Summer obviously is not going to pander!
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Saturday, July 14th, 2007
A summer night’s pleasure
Just the word “summer” has such promise to it, doesn’t it?
When I was a kid, there was no better season. Summer meant buying popsicles from the ice cream truck, and swimming in Mary Anne Westervelt’s built-in pool, and staying up late playing Scrabble and Monopoly, and long, long days at Jacksonville Beach, where we played in the […]
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Wednesday, July 11th, 2007
The dream that follows dying
My mother has been dead for over three weeks now, and I am getting used to the idea that I can’t just go to the phone and call her up whenever I want to tell her something.
But early this morning I had the strangest dream about her.
She just showed up at my house, smiling, looking […]
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Friday, July 6th, 2007
Feeling better
Today I noticed that I was feeling much better.
I worked on a newspaper story about the New England Wild Flower Society, which I visited yesterday in Massachusetts. Then I met my friend Jane at Panera, and I told her stories about my mother. I told her what it had been like to be present […]
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Sunday, July 1st, 2007
Remembering to breathe
You see, sometimes it seems that you can just sail through bad times. You can work on being present and grateful, and you can say prayers and keep reminding yourself of how wonderful it is that things aren’t actually WORSE than they are ( “Wow, wouldn’t it have been truly terrible if I’d had a broken leg while all this […]