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Month: June 2021

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My Marriage: The Pandemic Addition

Posted on June 28, 2021 by noemikjames / 6 Comments

So people (at least a few!) enjoy it when I talk about my marriage. I haven’t talked about it as much lately because things are (surprisingly!) pretty goo...

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Thanks

Posted on June 24, 2021 by noemikjames / 2 Comments

Thanks for the kind words on my last post. Your comments actually prompted me to go back and read some of my older posts (mostly about marriage) and I was remin...

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Finding my “why”

Posted on June 23, 2021 by noemikjames / 23 Comments

I’ve been thinking a lot about the “why” of this blog. Why do I keep writing it? Why, after long absences, do I come back here? It’s not...

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A Taste of the Fall

Posted on June 17, 2021 by noemikjames / 2 Comments

My daughter has a cold, so we kept her home from camp today. Actually, she had a sore throat on Tuesday afternoon, but we assumed it was the heat and her mask a...

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The Tunnel: Escaping the Confines

Posted on June 16, 2021 by noemikjames / 2 Comments

There are ways I remember the tunnel. They aren’t necessarily distinct, and I don’t always remember them in order. They overlap too, because each de...

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The Two Ends of the Tunnel

Posted on June 15, 2021 by noemikjames / 3 Comments

I started packing my classroom yesterday. I got six boxes finished. I would have packed more but I had to spend a couple hours taking apart the binders of my st...

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Time and Space

Posted on June 14, 2021 by noemikjames / 7 Comments

The past two weeks have been busy. Very busy. A lot of what was planned was really fun, but it didn’t leave for much free time. {Some of what kept us busy...

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End of the school year

Posted on June 12, 2021 by noemikjames / 2 Comments

Monday and Tuesday I held my final zoom meetings in each class. Wednesday I waved goodbye to each 8th grader as they drove through our Promotion Celebration. Th...

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Sick of the wind

Posted on June 8, 2021 by noemikjames / 1 Comment

I was going to write a post tonight – a real one! – but instead I sewed a bunch of patches on my son’s ki for martial arts camp that starts th...

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