We celebrated the end of classes last night at Columbia’s annual Christmas banquet. It was a good time.
The food, which students and their spouses cooked (not us after our cooking fiasco), was amazing.
It was fun to hang out with friends and relax. Jeff was a little reluctant to dance, but he got over it . [...]

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We’re in D.C. this weekend for an academic conference and while Adam keeps reminding me I really ought to go here the papers and lectures on topics I hope to study one day, I have been exploring the city instead. We realized the Metro runs directly under our hotel and so each morning before I [...]

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After much coveting, and discussing finances, I finally found my bike yesterday. It is a beautiful blue bike. We found it at a local bike shop. I rode it around the neighborhood twice, compared it to other bikes, and confessed that this was the one. Adam said I could get it even though he didn’t [...]

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. . . or helping my husband win, depending on how you look at it.
I decided to teach Adam cribbage this weekend (which of course meant calling home for rules since I had forgotten myself). We like playing games and cribbage is a good one for two people, so I thought it would be fun. [...]

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It is true in our marriage that many of our gender roles are reversed. Adam is a much better cook, while I can more easily assemble furniture and use my tool set. I don’t generally have a problem with this. I eschew many feminine roles and enjoy the challenges of assembling and fixing broken things, [...]

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It seems like time spins by so quickly these days: a flurry of classes, meetings, to-do lists, and appointments. In the hustle and bustle, it’s hard to find time to sit still; in classes I take notes and write e-mails and create posters, at home I read and make phone calls, in the car I [...]

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I don’t know why some people use the phrase ‘eat their words’ derogatively. I don’t know about you, but my words are sweet and true and I have no problem eating them. They came out sweetly the first time and are just as sweet to eat again.
It’s true that when Adam bought red crocs last [...]

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Hey,
It’s been so long since I’ve written. I’m sorry. Time seems to slip by so quietly this summer. I had every intention of sitting down to write to you weeks ago, but then I looked down and weeks had gone by. So many days the hours seemed to dig their nails in rather than pass [...]

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1) My throat is feeling better (thanks mostly to my husband who went out just to get me popsicles; and partly to the really good sherbert I bought last night).
2) My bug bites still itch and while I appreciated all of your suggestions and tried a few of them, I think my fingernails are still [...]

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My VCR and I are having a small squabble. The other night I wanted to watch a video so I put it in the VCR and the VCR spat it back out at me. I checked to make sure there wasn’t a video already in there (there wasn’t) and tried again. Same response. This happened [...]

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