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A Roaming Gnomes Complicated Feelings on Home
I’m tired of feeling transient, but I’m not ready to give up wandering. I want to feel like I belong somewhere, but not feel stuck anywhere.
Read More...What I Learned When Emma Turned Six
In August of 2007, Jared and the kids and I loaded everything we owned into a U-Haul truck and a Chevy Trailblazer and drove away from everything we’d ever known about home. We moved from Parkersburg, Iowa to Central Florida, where the only person we knew was a man I’d met on the Internet who’d [...]
Read More...Current Events: Halloween
A few weeks ago, a little thing called Halloween happened. Maybe you heard about it. Where we live, Halloween happens on the last day of October. And by happens, I mean is celebrated and by is celebrated I mean trick-or-treating starts at dark on the 31st of October even if it is a school night. [...]
Read More...In which I realize I don’t know my kid at all.
“And now I’m going to show you where I have music!” Emma ran off ahead of us down the sidewalk corridor that joins the classrooms at her Florida elementary. Jared and I are still in awe of the strip mall design of their school, but at that moment I was most amazed at her long [...]
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