From the monthly archives:

December 2011

Seven

December 14, 2011

In an hour, I need to make cupcakes.
The girl who was once my baby asked for them, homemade and chocolate, for her birthday celebration at school tomorrow. Because tomorrow, she is going to be seven.
Seven!
The night before she was born was frosty cold, my long maternity skirt catching flakes of snow in the parking lot [...]

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Anthem

December 9, 2011

“And liberty she pirouettes
When I think that I am free”

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Good

December 6, 2011

Today is my dad’s birthday.
Each year since he passed away the day has gotten easier. What I remember most about the first Dec. 6 without him is the hideous juxtaposition between that birthday and the one he celebrated just the year before. We threw him a surprise party in the midst of the urgent treatment [...]

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