Christina Rosalie

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How things have changed

Yesterday afternoon it poured. Thunder rumbled for a over an hour, and later, everything was beautifully drenched and glistening. I took Bean out after his nap. We walked around our small Connecticut yard, taking one last look before our move tomorrow, at the garden beds DH and I dug last spring, now filled with snap [...]

She eats catnip and then acts drunk

The Process Begins–Written June 11

The night is frenetic with sounds. Jazz on the street, neon rushing up. I want to dissolve and pour myself around my son like a protective coating covering his little hands, his delicate eyelids with veins like a network of rivers, lashes delicate like a forest of ferns. We are moving. Everything in my life [...]

My Merry Month of May In Bullet Points

* Put our house on the market two weeks ago & get 6 offers. Navigate the process of a bidding war & accept an offer; then realize we’ll very shortly have no place to live. * Pack 3.5 month old Bean into car and make our way to our new city (totally last minute–after discovering [...]

Taken in traffic

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    I am a writer, mixed-media artist, idea starter, stalker of wonder, finder of four leaf clovers, and mama of boys. ...{more}

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