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School’s Out for Summer! (And Digression)
Tomorrow–Friday, June 29–is a watershed day for the girls: it’s Molli’s last day of 7th grade, and…
Early Summer
If April showers bring May flowers, what do May flowers bring? Lees! Three of them, anyway, arriving…
Spring, Probably
March had been a snowy disaster, spiritually alleviated by a visit from Hannah but otherwise bleak: as…
Coming in Like a Lion and Going Out Like a Lion and Remaining a Lion in Between
It’s Easter weekend as I throw this post together. Saturday afternoon, at the moment. The girls are…
Winter
I’m off Facebook now–I even went so far as to delete the app from my phone–so I…
The Holidays
Things got a little complicated with the blog this month because our basement Devolo “Powerline” internet connection…
The Darkening 2017
This will almost certainly be the penultimate post of the year, and since the final post of…
Nine, ni, neuf, neun!
Dear Maddie, Yesterday you turned nine. It was a wonderful day and you were full of exuberance…
Riga Interlude
This is a very non-traditional post. Neither of our two primary subjects appear in it. At all….
Portugal 2017
The title’s a little misleading: this post actually covers regular life in September and October as well…