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romance
about a year ago, a friend invited me to join her book club. it’s a great group of women, and i feel so blessed to be considered their friend, but since joining, i’ve read two of the books chosen, and one of them was my pick (also one i’d already read — the language of […]
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the best antidote
hey!! good people!!! i need there to be an especially ginormous abundance of love being shared today. reach out far and wide and tell as many folks as you can that they are loved beyond measure. please. this was the facebook status i posted the day my aunt committed suicide. contrary to what it may […]
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the fall film challenge: my list
one. still alice. two. how to make an american quilt. three. the bookshop. four. life itself. five. john wick. six. before the flood. seven. the guernsey literary and potato peel pie society. eight. tag. nine. deadpool two. ten. peter rabbit.eleven. why him? twelve. destination wedding. thirteen. sleeping with other people. fourteen. easy a. fifteen. outside providence. […]
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things can only get better
i haven’t been to church in a long time. a friend talked me into going saturday. the readings spoke to me. the songs did. i bought some tamales afterward. two batches. i boiled them both. the first batch came out just fine. i scarfed those babies down. they were divine. the second one? i cooked […]
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the demons… the dreams i drown
hey now, take your change.that’s one of the first lines in u2’s stay. the first memory that comes to mind when i hear this song is the drive from montrose to grand junction to visit my mother’s family after my brother died. i plug in pretty much the moment we pull out of the driveway […]
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the fall film challenge
begins one minute past twelve a.m. september first / concludes midnight november thirtieth. you may NOT use a movie you have already seen, even in part (excluding trailers), for this challenge. all films MUST be new to you. all selections MUST have a page on the internet movie database and MUST have (had) a theatrical […]
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mercy
i used to imagine were i to get married what my wedding would be like. most of the time i envisioned it at a catholic church in the woodlands, not far from where i live, and because my father is who is and is so well-loved by so many, i doubt very much the guest […]
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let there be light
my aunt killed herself on wednesday. i have always viewed my brother’s death as a suicide — but his method was painstaking and debilitating. he drank and drank and drank until his body said enough, and it took about a decade for that end to come. i lost my brother a long time ago, but […]
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four things celebrated in may
one. dwayne “the rock” johnson was born on may second of nineteen seventy-two. watch one of his movies. share a couple of his lines you loved. okay. i watched jumanji: welcome to the jungle. i did not love any lines of dialogue from the film. not a damned one of them was remarkable enough to recommend […]