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This year our Christmas cards are a total disaster. I really did have high hopes to role out another glowing card with well coiffed hair and dreamy colors, you know, like last year (which, even though the year was rough, … Continue reading →

Sometimes it is tempting to think that life is hard. I’m not alone in this. I hear it in my student’s complaints, in the grumblings of everyone I meet (because let’s not pretend that any one of us never grumbles), … Continue reading →

You all know that there is nothing I love so much as a good cry, a good soul-purging sob over something beautiful and touching. The other night I decided that I was in need of just such a cry, and … Continue reading →

I am fairly certain that the actual 12 days of Christmas run from Christmas to Epiphany. Yes? No? Anyone want to correct me? Of course you do — this is the internet and everyone loves “helping” others be correct. But … Continue reading →

Sometimes I end up having 20 tabs open on my computer because I just can’t bring myself to close them, lest I never find the article/item/recipe/picture again. Eventually, I usually just end up slapping them in a blog post because … Continue reading →

Thanksgiving is here!!! Well not actually here, but we leave this afternoon to start our trek to Kentucky, so it might as well be. We are swinging through Charlottesville to visit my brother and then heading on to that blessed … Continue reading →

On Saturday I ran a half marathon. This is not, in the grand scheme of things, the most impressive accomplishment. I did not run it fast, I did not run it well, I did not — for miles 6-11.5 — … Continue reading →