So this morning I woke up all kinds of anxious about all kinds of things: school work, a presentation I have to do, money, life, the state of my sock drawer, etc. While anxiety is not my favorite companion, we have had a relationship in the past and been on a few dates here and [...]

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So Adam has threatened to delete my blog if I don’t write a post by the end of the day. He said that the first day of school required a post and he had the power to delete my sadly inactive blog if I didn’t write something; and clearly there’s nothing like a threat to [...]

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Okay. You are all right – Florida is the sunshine state and California is the golden state – if you want to be literal about things.
But is it just me, or don’t you also think of California as the land of promise and sunshine? Perhaps it is just me.
Either way, I wish the golden referred [...]

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I’m going to write this post and then you’re going to leave me comments that tell me I should know better, so I just want to begin by saying that ‘I knew.’ What, specifically, you ask, did I know? I knew that San Francisco is a chilly place characterized by fog. And, therefore, it was [...]

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I have to say that the 4th of July isn’t one of my favorite holidays – patriotism isn’t exactly raging through me. But as we were enjoying the fireworks on the beach in Mexico this evening, it occurred to me that the 4th of July is one of those holidays (unlike say, Labor Day) that [...]

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Much to our surprise and delight, Adam and I are spending the fourth of July in Mexico – an appropriate statement of the the level of our patriotism at the moment. Last week in San Jose we met up with Erin Dunigan who is a Princeton grad who was writing for the Presbyterian Outlook, which [...]

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(disclaimer: Adam and I are working for an Episcopal church plant this summer and part of our responsibility is to prepare and send out their weekly email newsletter, which always includes a reflection. As we do our best to be an egalitarian family, we take turns writing it and this week was my first turn. [...]

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Well. It’s Sunday now and my paper is due tomorrow and I’m thinking I’m going to start writing just as soon as I post this. So much for my grand plan to write it before the weekend. But after that sad afternoon of not knowing what to do with myself, probably just as well; I [...]

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When classes ended last Friday I had two papers to write. One was a 12-15 page paper and one was a 4-5 page paper. Unfortunately, or fortunately, depending on how you look at it, the longer one was due today at noon, giving me only three and a half days to research and write the [...]

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I know I haven’t blogged much and for those of you who have missed it, I apologize. And, I don’t have any intention of blogging at the moment. I just want to put something in the public domain so it is on the record.
Date: October 25, 2007
Time: 10:19pm
Fact: My husband, Adam Walker Cleaveland, in listing [...]

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