our house – Orangette https://orangette.net Wed, 16 Dec 2015 00:11:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.2 A new reason https://orangette.net/2013/08/a-new-reason/ https://orangette.net/2013/08/a-new-reason/#comments Sat, 10 Aug 2013 08:41:00 +0000 https://elitemporaryblog.wordpress.com/2013/08/10/a-new-reason I just sat down, looked at the calendar, and noticed that it’s August 9th. June is eleven months old today. On Monday, Delancey will be four years old, and on Thursday, Essex will be one.  Is this what happens when you become a firm-and-fast adult? You’ve done enough stuff and crossed paths with enough people that at some point, each day comes with a birthday or anniversary? I mean, in addition to bills and tax deadlines and increasingly tight hamstrings? In other words: there’s always a new reason to eat cake, isn’t there?  Or drink wine?  Both? I have a very cold bottle of riesling in the refrigerator. But there is no cake here, and that is because there is no…

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