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a hill-ish life: January 2008
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Tuesday, January 29, 2008. One of the (many) things that displeases me about winter is how, right about the end of January, it starts to dawn on me that I no longer have any friends. But now it's winter, and all I spot outside our front door are the fleeting forms of bundled-up dog owners racing through the arctic air with their pooches and, twice now, our neighbor's chickens fruitlessly scratching at the hard, grassless dirt of the front yards up and down the block. Who could speak my adult language....
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a hill-ish life: October 2007
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Wednesday, October 31, 2007. It's always the quiet ones. Not that we didn't find out well in advance of today's criminal activity. How could we have left the gate unlocked? We wondered. And why hadn't Audrey escaped as well? She was not, at the time, twice Lilah's size, and may even have been a bit smaller.). We arrived home to a locked gate, a pleased Lilah, and a bummed Audrey. Sucks to be her. I still marvel when I remember the tiny spot where the curved ornament of the gate could maybe - just possibl...
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a hill-ish life: August 2008
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Wednesday, August 27, 2008. I have, I hasten to plug - um, mention - been writing plenty of a slightly different sort at YogaMamaMe. I didn't mean to abandon A Hill-ish Life. I just figured if ever I had a good story that couldn't be tied to motherhood and aging and yoga and my wavering sense of self I'd traipse back over here to tell it. You'll see," he said somewhat apologetically, "that only the dessert is on there. Table Restaurant is picking up the rest.". It was one of those moments when - again, I...
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a hill-ish life: A Blue State Girl
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Friday, November 7, 2008. A Blue State Girl. It's official. North Carolina has gone for Obama. And I have moved from what was, as of yesterday, the only other state still too close to call but leaning red (that's Missouri, for those who haven't been following) to the one that leaned all the way blue for the first time since 1976. Hmm, I thought. I guess the Obama people know something I don't know. And so I showed up at 6:15, already vigilantly looking for signs that the polls wouldn't open on time at 6:...
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a hill-ish life: My Ancestors Come to Asheville
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Monday, September 15, 2008. My Ancestors Come to Asheville. A year ago, we bought our lovely Asheville home from a couple who lives across the street from us. At the time, coming from Southern California, as Hubby and I were, and from a law degree, as I was, this fact lay somewhere between discomfiting and horrifying. To Californians, real estate transactions are brutal affairs, gladiator-like battles in which the putative purchaser balances her desire for a home - any. Rather than bemoan the fact that a...
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a hill-ish life: October 2008
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Monday, October 6, 2008. Barack Obama is in Asheville. This very minute. Right now. Kinda makes me want to squeal a little bit. And I have that picture of me also in my D.C. days standing awkwardly by Tipper Gore, whom I didn't even like at the time, squeezing in my one Kodak moment before some other gawking onlooker grabbed her for their photo op. I was, frankly, kind of embarrassed about the whole thing, but my friend's sister, who had invited me to the event, insisted. Gladys Knight lives here? It beg...
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a hill-ish life: March 2008
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Monday, March 24, 2008. The Boy Gets an Easter Basket. It's an Easter bag, actually. Cute and pink, sporting a big bunny head with a sparkly nose. The Boy is entranced by the pink, sparkly pictures in his That's Not My Mermaid. Book, and I see nothing wrong with this fact, so when I spotted the sparkly pink felt Easter bag at Target, I grabbed it. Plainly I watched too many J.C. Penny Easter commercials during the days before I got TiVo and began skipping commercials entirely. I arranged pillows around t...
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a hill-ish life: Asheville Al Fresco
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Thursday, May 22, 2008. Summer is on its way to Asheville. Last Saturday, the start of summery evenings brought us an even greater opportunity than giving our child a lifetime of sleeping disorders (at least according to the articles I occasionally come across in the New York Times. With the latest studies about how we're doing everything wrong when it comes to sleep training). Hubby was invited to a block party by someone at work. A real, live, outdoor social event. Would be meet new friends? One thing ...
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a hill-ish life: Gas Shortage on the Ground
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Wednesday, October 1, 2008. Gas Shortage on the Ground. The gas shortage in my chosen home of North Carolina made the front page of the New York Times. Yesterday. Which assures me that even if I hadn't managed to notice it ten days or so in by, you know, living in the middle of it, I would have eventually figured it out by reading about it in the New York Times. Still, hard as it is to miss a severe gas shortage, I did. For a long time. In fact, I grew so accustomed to having Hubby pump my gas during my ...
