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Five Reasons This Friday is Fabulous: 1. “Your Amazon.com order has shipped!” Lying in bed at 6am, I checked my email, and there it was. Oh, how many times have I tracked the package since then? My new Kindle is now in Albuquerque, soon to be on my front porch, pristine and ready to be loaded [...] I love gateways and thresholds. Passages from one place to another, especially if they are mysterious, beautiful, or special. Every week I drive down one of the fanciest streets in my town, and every week I feel a pang at the beauty of one particular iron garden gate. It’s a weathered green, and right in [...] I imagine myself as a farm wife, milking cows, up at 4am, baking bread and churning butter. Of course I would be a farm wife from several hundred years ago, a real pioneer, so I’d be wearing an awesome dress while I did all the chores, although no one would think it was awesome then. [...] I have a stack of books waiting to be read. Stacks, really. They pile up on my nightstand, my little green table in the corner of the living room, and even the kitchen counter. When I go out and there’s any chance I’ll have time to read, I pack not one but two books in [...] I don’t know how many days I’ve intended to post something. Here I am, finally, after what seems like such a long time. In a moment, I’ll have to make something for breakfast and send my family out the door for the day. Katie has been posting lists on her blog, and I love reading [...] Yesterday I lit a stick of Hem Champa Masala incense in my kitchen. Somehow that one little stream of smoke making its way through my house brings back every memory of India, because it precisely captures what I smelled from the time I stepped off the plane. I don’t know what northern India smells like, [...] I’m coming out of my funk today. My manuscript didn’t advance in the ABNA competition, and while I completely understand why and expected this result, I couldn’t help but get my hopes up a little. And any getting up of hopes is often too high. My manuscript continues to be revised and polished, even though [...] So last week, my brother turned 21. Jay, who is mentally handicapped and thinks he isn’t, wants to be a police officer. He has many friends who are real officers, and one of these wonderful guys, Andy Adkins, offered to take Jay for a ride in his squad car in honor of his birthday. Naturally, [...] |
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