Velveteen Mind

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A pear pie made me stop blogging. Rather, the promise of a pear pie. No. Precisely, the absence of a pear pie. The day before we evacuated for Hurricane Gustav a handful of weeks ago, I dropped by our elderly neighbor's home to find out what their...
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Hot Spot Hopping - 23 days ago
Today, I collected coffee cups like a hipster collects nightclub hand stamps. After dropping off the boys at their preschool, one of two days during the week when they are both there, if only for a few hours, I decided that I would load up my gear and...
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Have you ever felt an unexpected shift in the core of who you are? You are trucking right along and suddenly realize that something has changed? Imperceptible shifts in your course, happening over time, until you abruptly find yourself in a different...
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The sound of gravel crunching under slow-moving tires is the sound of the small town to me. The sound of cicadas on a warm summer evening, while you wave at your neighbors honking as they drive past your home. That is small town life. I grew up in a...
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