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On The Road Again

Friday, May 23rd, 2008

While you’re reading this, I’m (trying to) sleep on a 40-year-old sectional sofa in a three-bedroom ranch house steeped in 45-plus years of cigarette smoke.
Ah, Cleveland, how I love you.
Showering in the basement. Listening to the TV at decibels previously reserved for the profoundly deaf among us. The pantry stocked with packaged foods.
My husband’s grandparents [...]

Lucky

Sunday, May 18th, 2008

The next three months are going to be crazy.
I keep thinking that I have until the middle or end of August to get ready for Shaggy’s arrival, but the fact of the matter is that he will be forcibly removed from my womb by the butcher my OB sometime the first week of August.
Today marks [...]