I’m alive.
I’m well.
I’m sorry, Internets, that I haven’t been a very prolific blogger lately, but I’ve been buried under a mountain of February to-dos and events that would make Martha Stewart weep into her hand-woven and delicately monogrammed hankie.
I need reinforcements.
Or at least refreshments.
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Apparently my son likes older women.
Sunday afternoon, we pulled up to the drive-through window at Wendy’s to get some lunch, and Paul handed our debit card to the girl at the register, who ducked back inside to run it through the machine.
“Hey!” Caleb called out from the back seat, “Will you open my window, Daddy? [...]
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Today he’s five.
He’s five and fearless.
He’s five and ferocious.
Five and full of frantic energy; it buzzes beneath his skin like static, and before I blink, he’s off to whatever new adventure awaits on the other side of the room, the other side of the world. Maybe he lets me go with him, or maybe [...]
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Language acquisition is a complex thing. And if the language being acquired is English (or worse, American), it’s altogether amazing that we develop the ability to communicate in complete sentences at all. Full of traps and complicated verb conjugation and huge, sucking tar pits of inconsistent grammar, English can send those who [...]
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