Author: mariegauthier
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The more things change…
Was it a blink for you? Though they’re older (hello, preschooler, 2nd grader, and 5th grader!), this past long weekend was still spent catching vomit in buckets all weekend long. I admit there’s less spatter and clean-up involved now that the kids are older. They’re pretty amazing about running for a bowl and not letting…
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2014 so far…
We’re only 3 days in and I’m already tired of this year. When will we at last be over this blessed vomit bug? For more on that, today’s post comes courtesy of my husband, Lance, from an email he wrote to a friend early this a.m.: After working outside all day IN THE FUCKING BLIZZARD,…
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Happy New Year!
It’s good luck if your entire family is down with a stomach bug for New Years, right? In lieu of a proper post, and it’s been ages anyway, so who am I kidding, I resolve to write more regularly here — I couldn’t exactly do worse, so I’m practically ahead of things already. Happy New…
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What’s your story?
“What’s your story? It’s all in the telling. Stories are compasses and architecture; we navigate by them, we build our sanctuaries and our prisons out of them, and to be without a story is to be lost in the vastness of a world that spreads in all directions like arctic tundra or sea ice. To…
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After long silence
Vincent finished first grade. Georgia, now nearly 15 months old, walks, dances, climbs, and orates in a cadence and vocabulary unique to her very self. Aidan is still finding his middle child way between big boy and baby. It’s summertime and the living is chaos. I haven’t just neglected you, little blog. Between my family,…
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Results of the Big Poetry Giveaway 2013!
Thanks so very much to everyone who threw his/her name in the hat! I’m late wrapping things up, as usual, but at last I got myself over to Random.org and let it do its thing. And so, the lucky winners are: Cave Wall: #23 = Doireann Sugar House Review: #8 = Kathleen Kirk burntdistrict…
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The Big Poetry Giveaway 2013
This year Susan Rich is curating the Big Poetry Giveaway, founded by Kelli Russell Agodon a few years back. Check out Susan’s blog for the guidelines, and to see the growing list of participants. In my usual fashion, instead of books I’ll be giving away subscriptions {Edit: AND ONE BOOK!}. But first: Where have I been?…
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The Next Big Thing
Since I last wrote these happened: big bad shingles for husband; chicken pox (caught from shingles) for baby; pneumonia for mama; add the holidays here and there; [and Tupelo’s 30/30 Project] [and the new year at the Collected Poets Series] and there you have the lost late autumn/early winter. But here I am, and my…
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A few of my favorite things
It’s getting to be ludicrous how lax I’ve been as a blogger, so I won’t even bother apologizing but will just skip right on by. Because the year is late and time is short but there’s always much to be thankful for: Journals whose new issues include my poems, to my everlasting gratitude and delight:…
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Autumn nipping at my heels
How on earth did it get to be October already? Georgia is five months old, Vincent’s in first grade, and middle child Aidan is universally praised as sweet and gentle and photogenic as hell: The lateness of the year terrifies me — intimations of mortality etc. — but I love autumn. Kicking leaves on the…
Marie Gauthier 