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Useless Information, Item no. 437: Blog versus book writing

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Midlife Sentence - Writing a Book

A little trivia about this blog: It started as family travel journal. Turns out, when you take a couple of kids around the world, you may leave grandparents skittish about the lack of daily contact, even if they weren’t terribly helicopter-y before you talked about getting on a plane. It morphed into a sort of […]

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Nonsense, Parenting

You wait. I’ll be so dang merry, Christmas won’t know what hit it

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Midlife Sentence - Merry Christmas

“Don’t you just get more and more excited as it gets closer to Christmas?” This was the start of a conversation over scrambled eggs yesterday, December-the-very-first, with our exchange student, Anna. Since I don’t talk much before 8 am, my only reply was to stare at her over my coffee mug, contemplating her sobriety. Then […]

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