When you’re regularly visiting places that are safe and acceptable for a toddler to explore on her own, often playground equipment is the most abstract thing one can find, as long as one frames it properly.

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They say that nothing good happens after 4am. Maybe that’s true most of the time but it certainly wasn’t the case for my night last Friday that didn’t end until just after 6am.

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Even without her cape and boots, she’s still my superhero.

7 days has turned into 10. While I endured over 3 weeks less than a year ago (was it really that soon?) it doesn’t make it any easier this time, nor, I doubt, the next.

I miss you, Punkin.

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Hurricane Ike devistated much of the Texas Coast, especially the Bolivar Peninsula south of Houston. Just neat Port Bolivar this hotel, now abandoned, shows signs of the hurricane’s destruction.

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(for Celeste)

no matter where I travel
no matter how far away my mind
always, you are there with me.

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I spent the day driving to Galveston for a quick weekend getaway. I arrived at the Tremont House too late to enjoy any of the sights, so instead I drank up the nightlife.

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The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle. –Anais Nin

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