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revisiting a daylight savings time post

Posted on March 15, 2016March 15, 2016 by thirdstoryies

We put the finishing touches on F’s new curtains on Sunday afternoon – the day we moved the clocks ahead an hour in anticipation of spring. It was a gray day, damp and misty, and several times during the afternoon I attempted to take pictures of the room. It reminded me of a piece I wrote…

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exquisite

Posted on February 16, 2016February 16, 2016 by thirdstoryies

Last weekend was a fairly quiet one. M and E headed out late Friday afternoon for a weekend camping trip with E’s Girl Scout group. That left me and the little one and a pretty open schedule. We filled them with a lot of extra reading – we’re on our second round of Ivy +…

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unwrapping: family recipe kitchen towels

Posted on January 9, 2014January 12, 2014 by thirdstoryies

Two years ago I asked my dad to be sneaky and locate some of the handwritten recipe cards of my grandmother’s from my mom’s stash. My criteria was that it had to be a recipe that we actually use a lot in our family, and it had to be in her own handwriting. We have…

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