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Posts from July 2008

Sketch #3: April 19, 2008

The New Jersey Turnpike was breaking our hearts—hearts that had been already beaten by the stop-and-go jerkiness through New York. The tolls broke our hearts. The skyline, streaked now and then by thin clouds and loud airplanes and ramps that rose and fell in undulations of concrete, broke our hearts. But it [...]


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30 July 2008 @ 9am

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Family

Do Not Ask Why the House is a Mess

Yesterday Nicole had some afternoon appointments and Madeline was at a friend’s house and I assumed that, with only two children at home, I’d have a couple easy summer hours on my hands. Mason was wonderful, of course. He looked at books and played with cars and blocks and was generally pleasant to [...]