Tag: lifestyle
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There Is A Season

We have two seasons in Florida, as opposed to the more common four: green and less green. We’re approaching the less green time now, though it hasn’t really hit yet because we keep getting these hurricanes that insist on delivering more water than we really want. So green it still is. At this time of…
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Let ‘Em Eat Cake
“Is it time to sing the birthday song and eat cake?” Isley had meticulously placed candles on her Aunt Melody’s cake. She’d helped me light them, guiding my hand with the matches. Only a few burned fingers. All mine. The only thing on Isley’s fingers was frosting. We stood around my daughter, home for a…
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Which Would You Rather Do?
All the kids came home for Christmas–an act of sacrifice and love on their part, an experience of chaos and comedy for everyone involved. Conversations can be hard to follow because so many people are talking all at once. As aunts and uncles interact with nieces and nephews and siblings talk and poke fun at…