My daughter ran wildly up to our screen door.  “Mommy! Mommy!  I caught a toad! I caught a toad!  Look! Look!” (You know she’s really excited when she’s saying everything twice)  In her cupped hands was a lovely, bumpy, spotted, clever-looking toad.  She looked up at me excitedly as I snapped this photo: “He peed on me, but […]

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I’m driving in the car, talk radio jabbering away, my daughter in the back seat.  She’s quiet, I’m quiet.  We could sit there, life blurring by, driving to the grocery store without speaking but 2 sentences.  Then I realize:  this could be a “moment”.  You know what I mean by “moment”, right?  I mean a […]

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