It’s been Quite A Semester. Really. Truly. And I won’t go into it now, because I’ve gone into it so many other times before. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, I’ll leave it to you to read Other Posts. If you do know what I’m talking about then, well, thanks for hanging around. […]
Read moreWe’ve been spending our evenings in Middle Earth these last days. In the throes of thesis writing this past semester, I decided I longed to revisit it. Bill and I had seen the movies (at least once) when they appeared one by one a few years ago, and gradually collected them all on dvd. Over […]
Read morefrom spiralling ecstatically thisproud nowhere of earth’s most prodigious nightblossoms a newborn babe:around him,eyes–gifted with every keener appetitethan mere unmiracle can quite appease–humbly in their imagined bodies kneel(over time space doom dream while floats the wholeperhapsless mystery of paradise)mind without soul may blast some universe to might have been,and stop ten thousand starsbut not one […]
Read moreSo we’re not clothes people, Bill and I. I will admit to wanting to be: I admire a well-dressed person– man or woman. I do, in fact, love clothes. But apparently I do not love them enough. Because my wardrobe, like Bill’s, seems to be perpetually Behind in the style department, always a little Lackluster. […]
Read moreI’m wondering if anyone has done a sociological study on modern travel’s impact on people. Because surely this power we have– that of waking up in one place, city, state, even country, and, after a few quiet hours’ sitting, waiting, walking some, and claiming baggage– to find oneself in Another Place Entirely must have a […]
Read moreWe need rain. The city of Durham– no, the entire state of North Carolina– is experiencing the worst drought in our history. As of yesterday, we have something like 52 days of water left. That’s not a very happy thought. If it doesn’t rain (and in this land of perpetual sunshine and blue skies, that’s […]
Read moreI’ve just finished reading The Tale of Despereaux to my children for the second time. We read it first in 2005, so I thought we could stand revisiting it. It’s a sweet story– a fairy tale story of a princess and a dungeon. The hero is a mouse (Despereaux), and the bad guys are some […]
Read more“Mom, am I too old for _______________?” This from Will, who is an appalling eleven years old. We are headed out to school, but he has recently been looking at a toy catalogue and circling items. He has toys like these already, and lately he and Everett have been playing with them together. They have, […]
Read moreIn October, Everett’s music class put on a little show. They acted out and sang the African story of Abiyoyo, a monster-like creature who plagues the villagers in a small town. I didn’t get to see the play, but I heard about it. Everett told me the story. The villagers, as I said, are plagued […]
Read moreI was standing at the kitchen counter, doing dishes, I think. Emma Grace was coloring at the kitchen table. Suddenly she got up from where she was working and crossed the room to the drawer where we keep the scissors. I did not turn to watch her; there was no need. She is six and […]
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