June 2009

Rhythm of the Neighborhood

by Susan on June 10, 2009

My office is really hot in the morning, and I face a window through which streams the bright morning sun. The woman across the street is running an informal (illegal?) daycare business. At regular intervals, her customers appear to drop off and pick up little children. Every time she sees me observing this, she glances [...]

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Memory Lane Monday: Camping

by Susan on June 8, 2009

Having spent last weekend camping at Wanee, today’s Memory Lane Monday is about camping. A couple of years ago, S and I took a weekend trip to Warren Haynes’ annual Mountain Jam festival. It took place on Hunter Mountain, a ski resort in New York. Our camp site was on a ski slope, resulting in [...]

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Memory Lane Monday: High Waters

by Susan on June 1, 2009

In 1999, I moved to Colorado with my then-boyfriend (and now husband) S. He had been to Denver on vacation and really wanted to move there. I had never been anywhere but really wanted to be with him. Thus: a cross-country journey in the bitch seat of a giant moving truck, pulling two cats in [...]

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