Blogs about: Ordinary Everyday
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Doing the Math
Daily work plus commute: 14 hours Nightly sleep: 7 hours Basic personal hygiene: 1 hour Household maintenance (meals, cleaning, pet care, laundry): 1.5-2 hours Very small margin of error, that. Good t… more →
Whatever Works
Word Girl!
embejo wrote 1 year ago: The other day E5 and I were weeding the flower bed and after making several piles of weeds on the pa … more →
Doing the Math
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Country Mouse wrote 1 year ago: Daily work plus commute: 14 hours Nightly sleep: 7 hours Basic personal hygiene: 1 hour Household ma … more →
January One
Country Mouse wrote 1 year ago: Last night, I rang in the new year with one of my preferred ways to celebrate the occasion: pretendi … more →
Missionary Zeal
Country Mouse wrote 1 year ago: Poke. Poke. “Acorn, quit poking the cat with your baton.” “I not poking her. I tea … more →
Conversations with Acorn
Country Mouse wrote 2 years ago: I. Acorn carefully lays his little doggie down in her fluffy dog bed. She immediately jumps up and s … more →
Random Thing I Love
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Country Mouse wrote 2 years ago: Lately, I’m loving shopping. No, not going to the mall and browsing. I’ve always hated t … more →
Bliss is...
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Country Mouse wrote 2 years ago: …sitting in the backyard on a late summer afternoon, just watching my boy play. With a breeze … more →
Bacon in the Spam
Country Mouse wrote 2 years ago: I was cleaning out this blog’s spam filter a little while ago, and happened across this gem: T … more →
Monday
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Country Mouse wrote 2 years ago: We later learned that he’d been hiding it for six hours before I caught him in the middle of a … more →
Where Does the Time Go?
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Country Mouse wrote 2 years ago: I don’t always use my time well. (“Really, Country Mouse?” you all chorus in my he … more →
A Lovely Way to Start the Day
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Country Mouse wrote 2 years ago: I’m not known for wearing dresses, but a few days ago I found a cute and comfortable skirt at … more →
A Feeling I Keep Searching For
Country Mouse wrote 2 years ago: This is where I want to be and here I am. The last time I can remember feeling this way so completel … more →
Heard at the Office
Country Mouse wrote 2 years ago: “This is a nonfiction drawing.” —9-year-old kid, to his mom … more →
Office Vignette
Country Mouse wrote 2 years ago: Coworker in the next cubicle: Wow, did you smell my client who just left? Me: No, I… Wait. … more →
The Coolest Blogger on the Net
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Country Mouse wrote 2 years ago: What does it say about me that I have no idea what the “right” answers are to Andrea … more →
For I Have Promises to Keep
Country Mouse wrote 2 years ago: From Nina: Here, I walk every day–long walks along the shore and out to the old fort. The wind … more →
Notes After Three Weeks at the New Job
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Country Mouse wrote 2 years ago: 1. When you’re eating supper at home for the first time in a week, expect to share it with you … more →
More Open Letters
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Country Mouse wrote 2 years ago: Dear Santa, I think I have been a good girl this year. I know I’ve tried. For Christmas, if y … more →
Holiblogging
Country Mouse wrote 2 years ago: I ran across this post earlier today. It’s a good example of something I could have found hila … more →
