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Further dispatches from beyond the Alleghenies

My car topped 100,000 miles this weekend.
They’re tearing down the Commodore building, the 19th Century red brick facility I went to Junior High in, in my hometown, and I am disproportionately angry about it.
Mackie is putting my iPod up to his ear and saying “hello” right this second.
I brought Owen to a preschool orientation last […]

Moving on. Have a piece of Settlement Pie

Thank you, everyone, for all the very kind words on my last post. My up-time is very short these days, but I hope to be able to thank you all personally soon. It really means a lot to me.
And now for something completely different.
Good bye, blue house:

We closed on you yesterday. You were perfectly […]

The kids are all right

Cormac is officially walking. He also finally said his first word: “Uh-oh.” As you might imagine, that gets repeated a lot around here.
He also picks up my cell phone, flips it open and says “hello!”, then wanders around with it glued to his ear until I remember the cell phone = cancer story in the […]

Reporting live from the north hills

I found the public library! And it has wifi! I am a happy woman.
So I’m still not entirely sure how, but we did it. We’re officially here. We moved all our worldly possessions into the 22-foot rental truck, drove 300 miles west, and unloaded them all into a (rather sketchy) 10x20 storage unit in the […]

So long, and thanks for all the crabs

Tonight will be our last night in Baltimore. What I will miss the most:

our friends on the faculty of the high school, who were nearly always up for poker
my coworkers and friends at the Baltimore Sun Media Group, who understand why some things aren’t done, and why some things must be
The awesome local people I […]

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