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Dance of the kindergartner

by Robin | Aug 15, 2009 | Family, Personal, Photos

A container of bubbles might just be the answer to World Peace… July, 2009, Clemson's Bowman field. Entertainment provided by wide open spaces and the whimsy of cousins at play.There are enough smiles in one bottle to illumine Times Square…...

Childhood in a bottle

by Robin | Jul 23, 2009 | Favorite things, Nostalgia, Personal

Scent-memory can transport me to a time and place in history at the speed of inhale. The smell of July's heat on a pine needle blanket…to years of Summer camp. Mothballs…to my grandmother's cedar closet. Estee Lauder Youth Dew perfume…to high...

While I’m licking my wounds…

by Robin | Jul 15, 2009 | Exercise in Frustration, Personal

Three things while I try my "best" to rewrite the post I was "this close" to publishing, the follow-up to A Time to Speak–somehow lost when I blinked [insert screeching, foot stomping and language that would earn me an "R" rating...

Make believe and little girls

by Robin | Jul 2, 2009 | Antigua, Favorite things, Kiawah Island, Nostalgia, Personal, Photos, Thematic Photographic, Weather

When I was a little girl, I had fizzy affection for all things "mini"–Hershey's chocolate bars and stuffed animals and oddly enough, office supplies. I'm convinced whoever invented Polly Pockets and Littlest Pet Shop toys was...

The Southern Way

by Robin | Jun 15, 2009 | Family, Favorite things, Food and Drink, Kids, Life Philosophy, Mom stuff, Nostalgia, Parenting, Personal, Southern, y'all

Blood and marriage are reason enough to gather on the hottest day of the year to celebrate family, for no other reason than that. It's the Southern Way. On a canvas of conversation broad-stroked with laughter, the fizzy flit of flies joins a threatening...