project 365 (2009) the family travel

Day 283: Mapping

A lost wallet (including lost license, credit/debit cards, social security cards and more) didn’t come between me and my plan to take my sister and nephews (and oldest nephew Casey’s BFF) to Six Flags for a couple of days. No roller coaster is a match for us, I tell you what. Project 365]

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project 365 (2009) the family

Day 267: The Parental Unit

Two of the silliest people on the planet. Which, of course, I love. My mom admitted — completely without provocation — that I was conceived on the living-room floor. And then she patted herself on the back about being able to admit that, since she’s got a long history of being extremely modest and not talking about sex in front of her kids. I am unsure of how I feel about this development, but I…

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project 365 (2009) the family

Day 209: Parental Observation

I haven’t written a lot about the house hunt because I am exhausted. Mentally, physically, emotionally, spiritually, existentially, laterally, longitudinally, grammatically. But the hunt, it rages on. It has gotten very serious. I have spent many many hours online and on the phone and in stranger’s houses, writing down numbers and percentages and trying to make my brain understand things like closing costs and PMI and taxes and pre-paids. It’s not all about touring houses…

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the family

So I don’t forget it

Tonight my dad gave me the best compliment I’ve ever gotten. He said I’m “the kind of person who can change the world.” I have no idea if he’s right but it knocked the wind outta me when he said it.

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memories project 365 (2009) the family

Day 177: Casey

My oldest nephew is about to turn fourteen years old. I remember the kind of shit I was plotting when I was fourteen and I am horrified, proactively, about all the shit this boy is going to get into. Ahhh, memories. So my mom and my oldest nephew came to visit me Friday. We had lunch and went and saw Up. Casey was gobsmacked when we were waiting for our food at Soul Fish and…

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