42 Dreams of Arizona Bay

The road stretched ahead of us, endless. In a couple hours, we’ll be home again.
My mind is numb. My face and eyes ache in the way that say I’ve been crying, and am holding back crying now. I know this time will never end, but it will end soon.
Time has a peculiar way of contracting, [...]

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Reason 29: Precolored hard boiled eggs for Easter.
Saw them in the grocery store and marveled. I didn’t get a price. But what is the cost of a few minutes of hardboiling eggs and spending quality time with your kids, coloring them?
How fricking lazy do you have to be? I admire that laziness, but still….
Better yet, [...]

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You’ve heard this all before. 
I’m home again, or am I? What’s home? Where my stuff is? Where my heart is? Where the mountains are, or with the lakes and trees and the sounds of my family all together, eating and laughing.
Sad to be home, glad to be home.
Fresno is green, much greener than Niles at [...]

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Fool’s gold doesn’t compare to the riches of Michigan
“It looks so flat, so boring,” a whiny voice from behind me tells her single-serving airplane companion.
We’re flying into Detroit, my second of a three-leg trip home.
I wanted to turn around and smack this person so judgmental of my beloved home state. She knows nothing of it [...]

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