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TeamReedblog: She came back!
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Sunday, July 12, 2015. We have our girl back and while the adult only zone has been fun - some parts admittedly a caloric-alcoholic haze - it's good to have her energy back in the house. Not that she's had a lot. I woke her when we arrived. As she fought her way back from the fog of car-ride sleeping, she said, "Is this what a hangover feels like? As if I would know. Hannah can never find anything with her name on it," she said, digging in. She cackled like a demon. I should say a savage, which was her n...
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TeamReedblog: April 2015
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Sunday, April 19, 2015. An afterglow to remember. Some of you may remember my angst over whether the Young Actors Theatre. Board would allow me into their hallowed midst after a particularly ungraceful entrance to a play last year. Whether it was desperation or true forgiveness, I'll never know, but they let me in and this weekend, I spent a few hours at a board retreat and was just blown away by a couple of interactions with some of the current crop of students. The Court productions focus on real-world...
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TeamReedblog: January 2015
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Sunday, January 25, 2015. As disasters go, this one wasnt. As disasters go, this one was short-lived and so it hardly qualifies as a real disaster. But for a few minutes there, I was devastated. Sick. Disappointed in myself. Definitely not wanting to confess to the Captain. I was driving downtown. Heading, in fact, straight to the Captain. We were going to leave my car at a Midas shop to get my oil changed and a tail light fixed. Gone Missing. Disparu as the French say. He wasn’t concerned at all&#...
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TeamReedblog: September 2014
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Sunday, September 28, 2014. The Captain gets full points this week, not just for being a great life partner, but for being a good dad, too. Don't get me wrong. He's still not perfect but I would never, for example, hit him in the head with a shovel and then eat his body so I wouldn't go to jail. (More on that later.). Thursday comes and it's finally the day for us to go see Eric Church. The show is in Louisville, so Alison is beside herself thrilled that she has the evening to herself. I called f...Well,...
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TeamReedblog: December 2014
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Sunday, December 28, 2014. And a greener Christmas still. No trip home to Maine is complete without a stop in Freeport, an outlet mecca and home to LL Bean. Jeff's parents used to frequent the place long before it became a global enterprise. Back then, it was mostly a hunting and fishing supply store and no one had thought to build a trout pond or bring in big-ass, stuffed game into the store. Generally, once you've hoarked you feel better, right? Last night was no better. I snuggled with her. Je...She m...
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TeamReedblog: July 2015
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Sunday, July 26, 2015. The benefits of a flooded basement. In a normal spring, like most people who have an older home with a basement, our lower level is at risk of getting a little wet at least once. It's been dried out for a while now, but we hadn't put everything back yet, weighing the forecast and whether it would be premature. We did assemble down there to watch Skarknado 3 Friday night, which might have been the catalyst for this morning's action. We had a clear agenda this morning, and Jeff decla...
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TeamReedblog: October 2014
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Sunday, October 26, 2014. Thats testosterone for you. As miracles go, it probably won't rank up there with fishes and loaves or turning water into wine, but around Chez Reed, it was pretty profound: Jeff did yardwork yesterday. He'd come home sick from work on Friday and like a good Ebola carrier, immediately quarantined himself from us. Once on the couch downstairs, he didn't move. He barely watched TV. Apparently he needed the rest. That' s testosterone for you," Alison said. I generally work out while...
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TeamReedblog: Alison Finally Gets Siblings
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Wednesday, August 12, 2015. Alison Finally Gets Siblings. BAlison has asked for siblings off and on since she was little. Mostly, she's happy being the sole focus of our lives, but occasionally she'll say it would be nice to have a brother or a sister. Today, USPS finally delivered on her wish for siblings:. We call them Kenny, Kyle, Cartman and Stan. She loves them. Even though she's a teenager, Alison was a big help carting and packing and toting. We had a good time, even though it's a little bitte...
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TeamReedblog: Inside Out
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Sunday, July 19, 2015. We may be the last family in America to have seen Inside Out. But we crossed it off our movie list today. Initially, I was thinking Disney had done it again: marginalized the mom. Which is better than Old Disney, which alway killed off the mom. Progress right. But I either was inartful in my protest or Jeff was really dead-on because he's convinced me that the mother DID get full credit for being supportive. So I'm reflective. It's possible I'm not 100 percent on this one. Jeff and...
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TeamReedblog: August 2015
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Sunday, August 30, 2015. Alison has been in the poor house lately. She made a strategic shopping error recently when she made a major deposit in her savings account. That account is, thus far, a one-way street. She did save a bit back, but when we went shopping just before school started, she ran smack into the issue of unlimited wants and limited resources. I was her shopping buddy, so that means she's in debt. To me. Which is a pretty good spot. For me. Long of a time for her to be there, but if I was ...
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