Sunday Morning Music

Lhasa de Sela: Con toda palabra

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Visions of My Elderly Self

I went grocery shopping today to get food for the next week with the kids. I don’t have to shop when they’re not here. I survive on the scraps that they leave behind. It’s amazing, really, how little I eat when I’m on my own. All I need is a loaf of bread and a [...]

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I’m In My Postmodern Phase

There are various eyes….. and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth.
~Friedrich Nietzsche

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And So Winter Begins

It’s been crazy warm, but that river doesn’t lie.
Goodbye fun and fashionable fall boots; hello ugly black clompers.

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Happy Faces in Odd Places

In tribute to a funny little collection of smiley face pictures found in everyday objects (as seen on the NPR site The Picture Show), I dug up the picture of the jam face that L found under her toast one morning.
And in a testament to how much time I devote to frivolity, here are some [...]

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Staring At Nothin’

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Like Mother, Like Daughters

I’ve told them and told them and told them about the time that I did a handstand in the kitchen and got very badly hurt, but do they listen? No, they do not.

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Window Seat

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Grrrl Power

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One Of Those Days

Very busy today. Had to make the choice between going for a run or having a shower. Not enough time for both.
Good thing I don’t sweat.

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Brothers

A rare photograph of the reclusive teen son.

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Sound the Bloody Alarm Already

Big R and I have watched quite a few climate change docs lately. This one was particularly effective in getting the message across. So much so that L, after only seeing 15 minutes close to the end, is now planning on asking her teacher if she can talk to her class [...]

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Time Together

It can be tricky to find times to connect with all four of the kids every day, especially the older two, who are so busy with their own lives.
Which is why I get up a full hour before I really have to.
I set the alarm before the sun gets up so that I can wake [...]

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As Promised

Tee wearing his new glasses.

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(Still) Shockingly Self-Absorbed

Today is the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. What were you doing on this day 20 years ago?
I was:

Turning 21. It was my birthday.
Only vaguely aware of the world outside of my own little head. Not much that happened in the news/in politics/anywhere that I wasn’t made it into my consciousness, [...]

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Sundays @ 6

The kids go to their dad’s for a week, and then they’re here for a week.
Whether they’re coming or going, the transition is hard. Tears when they leave, and tears when they return. I don’t know what they’re like when I drop them off over there, but when they get dropped off here, it’s a [...]

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Soldier On, People

We haven’t journeyed all this way because we are made of sugar candy.
~ Winston Churchill

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My New Love

Knee socks.
Weird, I know.

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Omnivalence

I’ve just started reading Mary Pipher’s new autobiographical book, Seeking Peace: Chronicles of the Worst Buddhist in the World, and after reading the prelude, I’ve decided that she’s my mental twin.
For example:
Few people have sought serenity with more ardor or have worked harder at relaxing than I have.
My experience exactly! A week in an all-enclusive? [...]

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In My Daughter’s Eyes

We don’t watch TV around here, thanks to T, who at age 2 became a little OCD about the screen. Neither of the older two had shown much interest in it, other than Bill Nye the Science Guy and Magic School Bus, but for some reason, maybe I had gotten a little lax, maybe they [...]

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