Dec
18
2007
We locked the dogs out of the dining room ever since I finished putting the ornaments on the tree, because Cleo likes to sit in that window and growl at cats, and I didn’t want her knocking the tree over in her excitement.
Tonight, packing for our trip, I looked through the dining room doors, and [...]
Dec
18
2007
We lived in Georgetown, CO that year. I was seven, and had never lived in a small town before.
It was the kind of place where it was safe for us to go skating on the frozen-over baseball diamond, and walk home after dusk in the yellow glow of street lamps, without having to worry that [...]
Dec
18
2007
I’m not sure how I managed it, but except for seven cards for which I had to track down addresses, and therefore are not already out in the mail, I finished the sending of the cards. Unless of course I don’t have your address because you texted it to my phone and I stupidly deleted [...]