Tag: family
member name: Xen Q.
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December 28, 2007 03:19 PM EST --
Merry Christmas From the Family
By nine in the morning, I should have been awake for hours. By ten, Ishould be knee deep in shredded wrapping paper and surrounded by giftswhose use I . . .
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October 10, 2006 09:02 PM EDT --
Dirt Road Roots
Drizzle permeates the long weekend Emily and I spend at Dirt Roads Roots III. This is the first year I attend the event. Emily says that this is because I wasn't interested in prior . . .
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October 17, 2006 09:36 PM EDT --
The Day of Two Carolyns
My nieces try several methods of getting me in the hay maze with them, effete physical force, cajolery, pouting bottom lips, yet the fact remains that the seated attendant has . . .
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September 22, 2006 03:19 PM EDT --
Transition
The only constant is change. I merely wish less change were toward the commoditization of childhood memories.
My family went on our yearly apple picking at Keepsake Farms, presently leased . . .
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December 04, 2006 10:09 PM EST --
Nostomania
So much is about to change and you know what I'm doing? I am downloading a new copy of the Buffy the Vampire Slayer soundtrack. I pine silently for the ethical and social simplicity of . . .
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December 30, 2006 06:56 PM EST --
To Blave
"Why is there a crowd getting out of your mother's car?" Emily asks. I turn and see the aforementioned crowd, my mother, father, sister-in-law, three nieces and younger brother. . . .
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September 10, 2006 03:51 PM EDT --
Prodigal
Driving home from visiting my grandmother, Emily and I spot people on Conor's porch. While theoretically not unprecedented, it was unusual enough that we immediately vote to turn around, . . .
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October 23, 2006 07:16 PM EDT --
Sarah
The ebb and flow of friendship persists. Some need to drift out to the open sea to find new shores no matter how we tried to hold them. Others wash back onto us under some unanticipated lunar pull. . . .
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November 11, 2006 01:01 PM EST --
"Why did that happen?"
Girl had cajoled but largely forced Shane away from the scene. Her semi-catatonia, her waking sleep, was fading now. In the library attic, Girl was able to get Shane to . . .
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August 28, 2006 01:54 AM EDT --
Lake George
Vacations, almost by their definitions, never quite feel long enough. This may differ from person to person, but I seem to be packing up the car again just as I have hit my relaxation stride.<!-- . . .
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