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Sliced

April 22, 2011

We didn’t know it, that first day of Tessa’s swim team practice in the spring of 2010, but our lives were about to be sliced in two. Before: we were consumed with the end of the school year. There were report cards, field days, deciding on next year’s school, assemblies. We’d had a wind storm [...]

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Perfect Moment Monday: Swearing on

March 20, 2011

Back in high school, I went skiing with our church’s youth group. It was miserable and I swore off skiing forever. That was before I had a husband to please. Six years ago, I succumbed to said husband’s requests to ski again. It was still pretty miserable (especially on my left, black-and-blue hip) and again, [...]

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Perfect Moment Monday: Harmony

March 13, 2011

Tessa is in the back seat listening to music on an off-brand MP3 player I gave her years ago. She gets excited at the song that comes on and passes one of the earbuds to  her brother, keeping the other in her own ear. She becomes Olivia Newton-John and Reed turns into John Travolta as [...]

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Perfect Moment Monday: Homing

February 20, 2011

Roger got home early from work one afternoon. He headed upstairs to change clothes and I followed him. (Don’t worry, this post isn’t going there.) We reclined on the bed and talked about our days, checked in with each other in a way that we don’t often get a chance to do. (Still not going [...]

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Perfect Moment Monday: Sound and silence

January 16, 2011

Family weekend in the mountains — the Christmas present that my family-of-origin gave to each other. Two parents, two sisters, two brothers-in-law. One husband, two children, four nephews. Four vehicles full of groceries and supplies. Some of us skiing, some snow boarding, some tubing. Puzzles, hot chocolate, sing-alongs. Cacophony. Familiar sounds of the members of [...]

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Perfect Moment Monday: Love and warriors

December 12, 2010

As I opened my hips, I watched the woman next to me do so as well. We both settled into our Warrior IIs. At the instructor’s urging, we moved our front knees toward our pinkie toes, stretched our arms from fingertip to fingertip and sank even further into our front legs. We aimed to square [...]

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