Everett has been away from us now for five months, one week and four days. I didn’t know the exact count until preparing to write that first sentence: I haven’t been marking the calendar with an x every day; I haven’t been keeping a countdown. Which isn’t to say I don’t miss him, that we don’t miss […]
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She has a full day of work ahead and a forty-five minute commute. Her three children will be at school all day, after which two will have music lessons and one hockey practice. Her husband is out of town on business all week. She posts a picture of her alarm clock: 5:45 AM, and the […]
Read moreSo here we are– fully in Daylight Savings Time. I was keenly aware of it this evening, when it was suddenly Well Past Time to get the dinner on the table, but was still looking like late afternoon outside. I had forgotten until that moment how, at the beginning, DST always sneaks up on me, […]
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