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I am reminded of the impermanence of life as I go through the agonizing process of cleaning out my old iPhone. Its text messages--sometimes ...

I've had a migraine headache for the past 24 hours (my first full-blown migraine ever). It goes away for a time and then seems to get re...

I wrote a blog post in my dreams last night. It was so eloquent, so urgent that it might have been reposted and tweeted hundreds of times. W...

I am in the midst of filing this year's FAFSA for I-guy's college funding and so, today, I am going through the little pieces of pap...

We went without power for a total of five days after Hurricane Irene. It wasn't a totally bad experience. In fact, the first couple of ...

Hurricane Irene passed through this weekend, hurling branches against our house all night into early morning. Acorns rolled madly across the...

Strangely foreshadowed by thunder, snow descended upon us last Wednesday. Trees laden with the thick, heavy snow bent down to the ground, r...

This is one of those things that probably would never leave my head if I didn't have a blog—I thought of these at breakfast and wrote th...

A realtor was quoted recently in the Washington Post Real Estate section saying, “Most buyers have no use for a living room.... It’s functi...