I really, really want to live here

And it’s for sale!  And I kind of feel like if you love a house enough, and are pure of heart, it ought to just magically become yours. It actually belongs to some acquaintances of mine, and it is even fabulous-er in person.  The plaster walls, the archways, the old barn wood on the floors. […]

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we have to move to Philadelphia

I had many thoughts at the movie theater last night as my sister and I wept our way through the end of Marley & Me–thoughts about devotion and loyalty, about family and marriage, about pets I have loved and lost, about how much I love stories that validate my own life choices.  But one of […]

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