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Archive for February, 2006

So there I was, perched in the bathroom bleaching black mold off the walls and ceiling and cheerfully grumbling (a task that can be accomplished if one is in the right company).I was waxing eloquent about how I could be in college right then, in a classroom with my peers, discussing important and intellectually stimulating [...]

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But what
if my heart revealed
should be proven worthless?

Because good writing is rarely safe.

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“Yes, you may shoot Titi Gaby, but do it quickly.”

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Actual Quotes (Raquel)

As Moriah approaches her first full decade, she begins to sound like the grownups…
“No, she gets to name her own fork.”
…and the grownups slide back toward childhood…
“Stop shining your fork in my eyes!”
 
Also heard recently–
“I have a way to put a bun in [...]

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An Ending of a Room (Gabrielle)

Times are changing in the Ben-Ezra household. We have brought about the end of a thing that has been ever since we moved here. I am very sorry to tell you that the Quiet Room is no more. For those of you who don’t know the Quiet Room was a room in our house that [...]

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Haiku of the Day (Raquel)

I like the contrast between these two haiku–

alone
in a crowd [...]

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Haiku of the Day (Raquel)

loving someone
I’ll never meet
until heaven

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Haiku of the Day (Raquel)

This goes with Gabrielle’s post on Sparkle and Shine:

this harsh, hurting world
if I would touch it
it must also touch me

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Elsie is 6 years old! (Raquel)

Yesterday was Elsie’s sixth birthday. She is now twice the age she was when I moved here. (I’m going on a technicality here, because she turned four about a week later.) I am not going to repeat here the entire spiel about how big she’s getting, or how fast the time is going or any [...]

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Haiku of the Day (Raquel)

silver
swirl of wire–
safety pin

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