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My mom is from New Orleans, she grew up in a big Catholic family, one of 7 kids. Which I suppose isn’t THAT big because my grandfather was one of 16 kids. Three died in childhood, which honestl...

http://www.poobou.com/2022/02/01/ghost-story/

This post probably gets filed under “nobody wants to hear about your exercise routine,” which is a philosophy I generally agree with. But I promise there’s a payoff here. I’ve had trouble...

http://www.poobou.com/2021/05/20/shuffle-hop/

Lucy is going to be ten years old next month, which is both mind-blowing (a decade of Lucy!) and also completely un-shocking because she’s been calling herself “almost 10” for quite a while...

http://www.poobou.com/2021/04/23/ray-of-light/

I guess 2021 is the year when I start blogging again, which I never would have guessed. I just wrote the story in my last post about how we ended up with Ada, our beagle. She’s been happily liv...

http://www.poobou.com/2021/04/05/ada/

I got an invoice this week to renew the registration of my blog, and I realized that I haven’t written anything here in… uh… *checks notes*… over 3 years. So, hello! Here’s what’s bee...

http://www.poobou.com/2021/03/31/pandemic-2021-updates/

Catie was in first grade when the shooting at Sandy Hook happened. It gutted me at the time, all those babies who were lost, the same age that my little girl was. A friend’s nephew was one of t...

http://www.poobou.com/2018/02/22/patiently-waiting-for-the-teenage-uprising/

The end of 2016 was so depressing and bleak that I didn’t bother to do one of these recap posts, but so much has happened lately that I haven’t blogged about, that I feel like I should pick i...

http://www.poobou.com/2018/01/01/new-years-meme-for-2017/