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Archive for February, 2006

This haiku on photographs came out much more scathing than I intended, but I still rather like it–
unnaturally frozen moment
yanked from life
to decay on paper

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We have returned from our many and adventurous travels. Gabrielle and I both plan to write up our experiences as blog posts at some point, but I think today we were both still recovering from our adventurous travels. While you’re waiting here are our actual quotes from the trip. As always these quotes are entirely [...]

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Hello to all you fair, blog-reading peoples. I have an announcement. Today Raquel and I will be getting on a train that will take us here and then we will get off and then we’ll get on a different train that will take us over there for a while. The result of all these gallivantings [...]

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Chapter Three-Hundred and Forty-Two; in which our Heroines have Great Adventures of Travel

Today Gabrielle and I take a train from Bloomington to Erie, with a five hour layover in Chicago. Next Monday we will return, again with a five hour layover in Chicago. In the week between we will be in Erie visiting Gabrielle’s old haunts and various members of her family (and Barb). So will our [...]

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Haiku of the Day (Raquel)

February–
cold coffee grounds
settled in my mug

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Haiku of the Day (Raquel)

safety–
an unsheathed
sword

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Blog Identity Crisis (Raquel)

Gabrielle and I have been discussing the description of our blog. According to the description this blog is about us not going to college. In actuality, this blog has been mostly about our lives chasing after children. But then, the reason we’re here chasing children is we think this is a better training for the [...]

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A Soldier’s Training (Raquel)

I just read Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card. Once again, Gabrielle was right–I did enjoy it, and it was a harsh book. The main character is a little boy named Ender, who is being trained as a soldier. Because he has the best potential to be the commander they desperately need, his training is [...]

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Alone in a house with four children (Raquel)

Theresa and Moriah left this morning on Moriah’s special tenth birthday trip to St. Louis. The first thing that strikes me about this is that four is such a small number of children to deal with. Two years ago I would have been on edge trying to keep everything under control, wondering if I could [...]

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Dinner at the Lansberry’s House on the Occasion of Moriah’s Birthday (Gabrielle)

“After I drain the blood out of it you can play with it.”
“If it were fixed it wouldn’t be leaking…blood.”
“You still have…blood on your hands.”
“I think she bought the one I thought I had.”

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