Halloweirdo

Monica/ October 31, 2017

I’ve always loved Halloween.  I was about 13 years old when I discovered I loved it an inordinate amount.  My mother was startled by what I considered brilliantly thrifty decorations.  I used all sorts of ordinary household items to create an interactive haunted house in my room.  I stuff plastic bags into my black tights, to make thin, frail, crunchy

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This Is How We Stay, Please Stay This Way

Monica/ January 7, 2017

I am restless and nomadic, fidgety and vagarious.  My sister is my float in this river that pushes me towards a bank or a wall.  I rest on her. Each year, we take a sister trip, like our Hanna Sister Spectacular Summer S-cape (to Cairo) and alliteration-free sojourns to Anchorage and Antwerp, all the way out to Valparaíso and Zierikzee.

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Oldlyweds

Monica/ October 13, 2016

Ten years of marriage has made some things much easier and other things much harder.

This Happily Ever After

Monica/ July 9, 2016

This week, my husband and I are celebrating ten years of marriage, a.k.a. “happily ever after.”    This is the Picture-Story of whatever the hell that means. That was Then and This Is Now… Weddings are a very strange beginning.  We’ve found that nothing about ours translated into real life: