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Boy Band

Words tomorrow. Tonight, simply this. These boys, they rock my world.

Recuperating

Tonight I feel like lint flicked from a pocket on the breeze, or like a piece sky blue ribbon caught in a snarl of twigs, or like a small field mouse, ears transparent and patterned with intricate veins betraying a tiny fluttering pulse, curled into a nest of fuzz and scraps of cloth beneath the [...]

Ugh.

I have mastitis and feel like crap. Help me take my mind off it by leaving me fascinating links in the comments from the last post. Or just whimper with me. Whichever.

1 month old

Sprout is one month old and change today. I keep wishing I could go back to old posts and find out what Bean was like at 1 month, but alas, I didn’t start blogging until he was more like 3 months old so I am forced to trawl my gmail archives for the laboriously detailed [...]

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This life

I went on my first run two days ago, and another today. Two miles each time. Sunshine, mud on the road, my squishy middle conforming to supportive snug of lycra and elastic, my feet happy in my shoes. It was a small, micro slice of euphoria: those thirty minutes, me, and the muddy road. Along [...]

In the dark

I have always feared drowning, though I am a swimmer. My body revels in the water, kicking like a dolphin, arms rhythmically breaking the surface; yet there is a dread that resides in my lungs, in my ribcage, in the pulsing four chambered pocket of my heart that fears drowning more than falling, more than [...]

Learning Curve.

Learning Curve. There are days when I feel like cloudy water in a glass. Days when I feel spilled and lonely, and the color of the sky and the color of the melting snow is like cement, perpetual and repeated as far as the eye can see and all I want to do is crawl [...]

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    1) Launch & get funding for A Field Guide For Now. 2) Go to some local galleries. 3) Write some query letters. 4) Read/re-read every book on this list. 5) Plant the garden. 6) Learn CSS. 7). Finish A Field Guide To Now manuscript. 8 ) Hike Mt. Mansfield. 9) Go for a family bike ride. 10) Make a big deal out of friends & loved one's birthdays. 11) Attend a writer's conference. 12) Start the process of going back to school. 13) Make croissants from scratch. 14) Go to Montreal this summer. 15) Get a Polaroid camera. 16) Work on my abs. 17) Throw a garden party with pretty lights and fun drinks. 18.) Buy a vintage cake stand. 19) Wear dresses more. 20) Take risks with fashion. 21) Organize the basement. 22) Go biking this summer. 23) Multiple streams of income. 24) Ride a train with the boys. 25) Go camping with friends. 26) Go to the local farmer's market regularly. 27) Submit five short stories. 28.) Buy a new bikini. 29) Build a greenhouse with recycled windows. 30) Complete some new canvases. 31) Become adept at Photoshop. 32) Go to a museum. 33) Remember: "What if there is no emergency?"
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