Tag: seasons
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Springtime and the Little-Kid Years

It’s spring, technically. The 50-degree weather we’re having is seasonally appropriate, even though it’s unpleasantly chilly and windy compared with last week’s 70-degree afternoons. Things are so much easier on those 70-degree days. Those days when it’s warm, partly cloudy, and just a little breezy are pleasantly low maintenance. No coat. No gloves. No wet…
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Time Travel

“Grandma, what’s time travel?” Walter asks, for the third (or maybe the five hundredth) time. I’m dropping the kids off with my mom before going to work, and she mentioned something about time travel while talking about going to the Renaissance Festival with my brother. My three-year-old is still learning not to interrupt grown-ups unless…
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August

August has become my favorite month of the year. The boisterous, humid days of July begin to settle down, but summer is still going strong. The near-end of summer means sunflowers in bloom, twilight falling just a bit earlier, and a well-rehearsed symphony of insects playing while the orange glow of sunset still lingers in…
