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peanut-butter & jelly: Boy-Man and the Pink-Handled Pliers

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Monday, June 8, 2015. Boy-Man and the Pink-Handled Pliers. My son shed a layer of his boyhood today. This morning I woke him, as I always do, kissing his forehead and asking him to join the family for prayers. He had whimpered during breakfast over something inconsequential, as children do. And I waved my little boy off to his last day of fourth grade, having made sure his snack was in his bag, as mothers of children do. So, what are your plans now? 8220;Don’t tell her! I kept my cool. His dad had &#...

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peanut-butter & jelly: February 2014

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Monday, February 24, 2014. February is carnaval time around the Catholic world, and the Dominican Republic is no exception. Luckily, though the city of San Francisco de Macorís (SFM) has an extremely high murder rate and there are occasionally minor and major protests and riots against the government, it turns out that SFM has one of the most civilized carnaval celebrations in the country. Weeping, sobbing, Zora insisted that we go home, but we pushed through and ended up having a great time! All through...

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peanut-butter & jelly: September 2014

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Thursday, September 25, 2014. You won't sleep tonight". The three bars also have another marketing strategy which baffles me: play the same music every single day, all day. YellingSlurringSinging along to music is easier, apparently, when you’ve heard the song 82 times that day. Each of the bars play the same seven sexually-explicit&suggestive. Tonight I’m going to look for you. Already I’m terrified]. I can’t take it anymore. Neither can I, dude]. I’m so desperate. My bed is waiting for you. Failing to ...

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peanut-butter & jelly: How I Know I Would Die in a Game of Quidditch

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Tuesday, July 15, 2014. How I Know I Would Die in a Game of Quidditch. I’ve officially benched myself. To the sidelines, Rebecca! Out of the game. I’m the one who will now hold your bag while you get in on the action. I’m the one waiting outside. It went like this. Imagination some homemade props Photoshop = happy Max (2007). At the county fair was the actual guy who made the brooms for the first Harry Potter movie. Max just about died. (2009). Keep in mind that I’ve been living in the Caribbean fo...

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peanut-butter & jelly: December 2014

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Saturday, December 13, 2014. How My Boobs Got on the Internet. We invited all the media. And 99 other people too. This morning our little library, Biblioteca Comunitaria Dr.William House. Celebrated the completion of our Traveling Story Time program, made possible by a grant from Better World Books. At the beginning of July we began with a goal of reading 1000 books to 5000 kids and training at least 25 local volunteers to help us do it. Reading to kids in the children's hospital. As we were announcing t...

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peanut-butter & jelly: At Eleven-thirty. Every. Single. Day.

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Tuesday, September 25, 2012. At Eleven-thirty. Every. Single. Day. God knows we're weak. Omniscience is like that, I guess. With this in mind, we have been blessed with some seriously loving and generous neighbors. I keep telling people what they do for us and nobody believes me. Not even the other Dominicans. So, about a week and a half ago I decided to start documenting the generosity marathon. It's insane. Are you ready for this? From left to right: Chicken, lentil and rice soup, Fresh bananas and avo...

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peanut-butter & jelly: August 2013

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Friday, August 30, 2013. All Victims Shall Be Expelled. I am so ready for summer to be over! Said no self-respecting Oregonian ever. But I am. Monday starts a new school year for my dear offspring and boy-howdy, "ready" is an understatement. Their "summer vacation" began prematurely in April, you see. When we returned from the US, finally home again on our island after a 3 month sabbatical of sorts, we went to Max's school to re-register him. It goes like this. We met with the teacher. We met with th...

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peanut-butter & jelly: April 2014

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Friday, April 18, 2014. About a month ago I was introduced to a new game. Curses. I was on vacation from my online job, a friend was in town to distract the kids, I had just finished an awesome book and wasn't ready to delve into another quite yet- the conditions were perfect. Then, I became very, very ill for 48 hours. Forced bed rest on top of it all? Hours upon hours of game time ensued. If things ever got rough around here, I don't know that I could come back from that. Scary. I tried as I might to p...

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peanut-butter & jelly: By the Time You Read This Note, I'll Be Gone. Love, Electricity

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Saturday, May 4, 2013. By the Time You Read This Note, I'll Be Gone. Love, Electricity. In the last week, we've had one day with. Power all day. One. Yesterday, I sat down with my cup of coffee at 8:30 am, ready to go and 17 minutes later, the power was cut. Until 4:20 in the afternoon. Today, its been teasing me off again, on again, like a high-school relationship. As any love-sick teenager would, I asked "why? Electricity consumption per country, from CIA World Factbook". Territory size shows the propo...