Lady in a Small Town

This is a repost from April 2006 (before the Great Yahoo Blog Disaster of 2007).
I have lived in Brattleboro my whole life.
I went to college in Virginia for 4 years, but I came home every summer and little tiny Sweet Briar was a lot like Brattleboro without the boys my age.
When I was born I […]

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This a repost from August 2005 (before the Great Yahoo Blog Disaster of 2007). This month’s NaBloPoMo theme is Home.
I have lived in Brattleboro for all 29 of my years (save for college in Virginia).
I adore my small hometown. 12,000 people call Brattleboro home with another 5,000 or so in the surrounding towns.
Brattleboro is […]

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for stuffed up nose
for a sinusitis diagnosis
for Sudafed, which didn’t help
for a sick day
for sub plans which took me 3 hours for a 90 minute class
for sleeping late on a school day
for shopping for a dress for my sister’s wedding

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as in snow on the ground when I woke up this morning.
as in sucks to find snow on the ground on April 4.
as in shoes which I sorely need to buy.
as in shopping which is what I needed to do, but instead I watched TV.
as in stupid which is what I am for forgetting to […]

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Dear BMC,
Thank you so much for providing an experience of culture for the children of Windham County. Being able to accompany my First and Second Graders to Ferdinand the Bull was wonderful. Each of my students were enthralled with the concert. The narrator and conductor made it so easy to understand and […]

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Dear Mr. Sunshine,
Thank you for coming out to visit today. I feel like it has been a very long time since I have seen you and felt your warmth. Please feel free to stay around a while and visit.
There are so many things you have missed out on since you were gone. […]

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Dear Mom and Dad,
Happy 42 anniversary. Who gets married on April Fool’s day? My parents of course. What is it you say, Dad? When else should you get married?
What a small simple wedding you had. How times have changed. Here we are planning Mooch’s wedding…in 6 months […]

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This is the last day of a month of lists. I guess I will have to get on the stick and start blogging real things. April is a month of letters. I guess I will see what that means when I get there.

The Eiffel Tower
Ayars Rock
The Great Pyramids
The Rockies
Grand Canyon
A female […]

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While the pencil with an attached eraser is really nice, I give my kids eraserless pencils and block erasers. And what is up with the name of the inventor? Hymen Lipman? Really?

Dry erase boards I hate how my hands feel after using the chalkboard. White boards are so much fun to […]

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I don’t feel like doing much of anything today. I also don’t have much to write about. My life is terribly boring.

weigh in
get breakfast at Dunkin Donuts
read blogs
write blogs
read blogs
play games online
watch TV shows you watched last week, because your husband didn’t see them
fall asleep
wake up
move to other couch
fall asleep
shower
watch your husband rock […]

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