5:44 a.m. After this cup (several cups) of coffee and after my morning run around the neighborhood (I’m running again!) and after my dad takes my car to the Honda dealer to get checked out because he’s neurotic, I’m making the long and painful drive back to Colorado. And I’m feeling emotional about it. But …
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It happened again. When I returned to Colorado after a week in Florida with family for Thanksgiving last month, a thick cloud of loneliness rolled in and stayed for a few days. I’d never felt that before. In the past, after family visits, I was always relieved to return home to an empty apartment; it …
Yesterday morning I left Orlando, Florida at 10:45 a.m. EST and walked through my door in Louisville, Colorado at 3:20 p.m. MST. Roughly seven hours. Does air travel not absolutely blow your mind? It’s obviously not a new phenomenon, but it still kind of does a number on my brain, ya know? ^^^ It's friggin …
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Though I ate my fair share of homemade Thanksgiving dishes and pie, my heart is what's most full. Here we go. The five of us sat there, eyes closed, holding hands around a high-top dinner table piled with all the classics: buttery mashed potatoes, brown sugared yams, creamy and crunchy French’s green bean casserole, the remnants …
