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Please, Don’t Go Outside

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Please, Don’t Go Outside

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Jennifer Wolfe, a writer-teacher-mom, is dedicated to finding the extraordinary in the ordinary moments of life by thinking deeply, loving fiercely, and teaching audaciously. Read her stories on her blog, mamawolfe at jenniferwolfe.net.
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“…the border between the Inside and the Outside wasn’t as impermeable as she liked to believe, and he knew that sooner or later, the Outside would want in.” ~from If I Fall, If I Die by Michael Christie Today I planted tulips and pansies Outside, yanking out the weeds and cutting back debris I’d left […]

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Friday Photo: This Place

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This place is Magical, Sparkly Majestic Tranquilizing This place welcomes them Home Year after year For decades Sometimes with arms that change Sometimes that grasp too tightly Unsure when to let go There to heal This place Scented with pine, cinnamon Melting Wax A balm redolent of family And the essence of hard work This […]

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“How did you fit everything in that orange backpack, sweetie?” The sun streamed in through her sliding glass door. It was mid-morning, and she already looked like she had never left for college. A wet towel hung over her pink desk chair, and her fuzzy sky-blue bathrobe still lay carelessly tossed on the floor. Her […]

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Thankful She’s Home

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I went to four grocery stores yesterday. She wanted fresh fruit and raspberry Greek yogurt-things she cannot get in her dorm cafeteria. Lucky we live in California – no struggle finding fresh produce, so I bought a bounty and brought it home. I was a woman on a mission, in search of the perfect pineapple, […]

Letter to My College Bound Daughter

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Letter to My College Bound Daughter

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Dear baby girl, You are done with what society has ‘required’ you to do. What’s left is what YOU require yourself to do. That can seem scary and daunting and utterly oblivious to you right now, and that’s precisely the way it should be, I think. I have a few words of advice that might […]