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		<title>New Beginnings</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Aug 2019 14:38:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[For my firstborn, Kate… I have this very distinct memory of being in the hospital, nine months pregnant with you and about to give birth. And I was, at that moment, both so very excited to hold you in my arms that I could barely breathe, and unsure that I was ready to be your [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>There is Always Laundry</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jun 2018 12:25:11 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s the first full day of summer. I&#8217;m sitting alone listening to the rain quietly patter the roof and the windows in the kitchen. Sipping hot coffee in the dim light. Poppy is snoring. David is in the shower and the kids are all still asleep. We don&#8217;t have any plans today but Ella is [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>We were together.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2016 05:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I honestly don&#8217;t remember a day when I wasn&#8217;t in love with you, David Paul.  Some days I wake up and think Oh my God, he is still here  because I can&#8217;t even imagine why you would stick around with me&#8230;and yet there you are. And for twenty years, you have come back home to [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Silence Like a Boom</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Aug 2016 14:25:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It rained last night. The trees bear that in their color&#8230;the trees, the grasses and the fields full of blue Chicory flowers and Queen Anne&#8217;s Lace. I turned off, onto the old winding road and drove slowly, trying to avoid holes and making my best attempt to find the smooth patches of dirt among the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Cannons</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2015 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I remember those days, those halcyon days, wrapped warmly with you and that big, gentle dog&#8230;sitting by the fire&#8230;dreaming as you slept. I remember them like they were yesterday&#8230;the sound of the fire&#8230;the smell of your downy hair&#8230;the way your fingers unfurled when I touched your cheek. The way my heart felt&#8230;as though cannons were [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Lower Ring</title>
		<link>https://nosmallthing.wordpress.com/2015/10/29/the-lower-ring/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2015 13:18:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#8220;It will probably be the last lesson in the upper ring.  It&#8217;s getting too dark.&#8221; &#8220;Oh&#8221; I said, a little inquisitively. &#8220;I&#8217;ve never been to the lower ring.&#8221; &#8220;Me neither. It has lights.&#8221; I hadn&#8217;t expected the contemplation in her voice. I had expected her to tell me what the lower ring was like, or [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Warmth and Light</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2015 19:57:59 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[She lifts her face to the sun. To her, there are no shadows. Just warmth and light, and a soft place to lay down.]]></description>
		
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		<title>God Gave Me Today</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2015 02:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I drove Kate to school today. &#160;It was in the forties this morning but today it was sunny, so I opened the sun roof and let the sun warm my face as I drove home. Most Mondays I am full of a kind of joy that is hard to express in words&#8230;everything is beautiful &#8212; [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Last, Loveliest Smile</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2015 14:46:01 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It looks like rain outside, but there is no rain in the forecast. I could really use a beautifully rainy day today.  It is going to rain on Sunday&#8230;it will be cool and rainy and I think the perfect day to let a pot of chili simmer on the stove and watch football together. I [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>What I Do Remember</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2015 14:52:44 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I can&#8217;t remember every detail of every child&#8230;every first word spoken&#8230;every first step&#8230;every favorite food&#8230; They ask. They want to know. They want to know the little details of their lives&#8230;the little things they did when they were too young to remember. But I don&#8217;t remember, either. I don&#8217;t remember Henry&#8217;s first word. Partly because [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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