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At least I am not the only person in the world capable of embarrassing myself in print, right? I keep thinking I am going to be struck by inspiration and write something brilliant, but instead I am spinning this week. My losing streak has continued; as I was getting on the airplane Sunday I realized my grandmother’s wedding ring was not on my finger. That was devastating. And we now have a missing lunchbox, misplaced homework, and it’s a long and tedious story, but the loss of all of the stuff that was on my iPod, which was mostly backed up but not completely. I’ve been widowed a bit, by the Halo 3 release, only it isn’t as annoying as other video game releases that have left me feeling abandoned. I want to say maybe we are getting the...

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Posted by Mara Collins on Sep 26, 2007 | 2 comments

Poor Mary Stories

So yesterday’s memorial to my grandmother was pretty amazing. I think waiting three months after she died was lovely for having allowed time for reflection, for having let her not being there sink in a little. My parents collected stories from anyone who was willing to share a memory of my grandmother, and put them into a lovely booklet with a photo, and that wouldn’t have been possible if we’d been doing this in the days after she died. And it was meteorologically perfect: the skies opened up and poured down on us as we walked from the chapel to the grave to place flowers and sing happy birthday, and that felt just right, though in true New Mexico fashion we got an hour or two of lovely sunshine in the afternoon, which allowed my husband to...

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Posted by Mara Collins on Sep 21, 2007 | 0 comments

Loss

Today it was my son’s portable video game case with a bunch of cartridges in it that left home in Portland and didn’t make it to Albuquerque; Saturday it was a stuffed dragon of his younger brother’s that I had endowed with enough anthropomorphized sentiment because it — named Turnip, by my three year old, Turnip, he’s got a gift for names! had accompanied Rainer to preschool on that first insecure day, had been kissed goodnight — had endowed it with enough something that the idea of just buying a replacement felt guiltily wrong. Turnip set out for errands with us, and was unfindable at bed time, and several phone calls did not reveal it to have been turned in anywhere. Other stupid losses — the couch last week decided...

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Posted by Mara Collins on Sep 19, 2007 | 5 comments

Appearances

So what do you think? Raven realized we could host my blog on the server where he’s hosting his other stuff for just a small amount more, and since I am finding I am more into this as time goes on, rather than less, and committed to it and everything, he stayed up late last night moving everything over, and it necessitated a new theme, which is hopefully even a little more readable and eye-friendly. Trying out MarsEdit instead of ecto for composition, still not sure I like it any better. It’s a strange gift, being married to such easy fabulous tech support, since the computer skills I was so proud of before marriage have atrophied tremendously, but I’ve been saved such a multitude of headaches and he has found so many easy solutions for the...

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Posted by Mara Collins on Sep 16, 2007 | 3 comments

Technical Difficulties…

I hate spending more time on how my blog looks than on what I have to say but I am irate that wordpress is destroying all of my paragraph breaks…  This has finally driven me to compose in ecto, but I’ve been lazy figuring out how to insert links with ecto. Final straw this morning was just going back in to add a tag on an old post and that edit including, against my will, the destruction of the carefully constructed paragraph breaks.   Going to have to call in tech support on this one, but if you’re reading this, I am doing my best!

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Posted by Mara Collins on Sep 15, 2007 | 3 comments