So here we are– fully in Daylight Savings Time. I was keenly aware of it this evening, when it was suddenly Well Past Time to get the dinner on the table, but was still looking like late afternoon outside. I had forgotten until that moment how, at the beginning, DST always sneaks up on me, […]
Read moreWe have a cat. Her name is Minnie, and we’ve had her for fourteen years– longer than we’ve been parents, longer than we’ve lived in North Carolina, almost as long as we’ve been married. She is a Very Sweet Cat. I think rescued animals are often sweet, because they are, by and large, grateful. Minnie […]
Read moreHere’s a favorite photo: Emma Grace with her Oji-San, my dad, just after she has helped him peel potatoes. I think they both look so pleased. Don’t you think they look pleased? Emma Grace is wearing the vest my mother crocheted for her in the car during their drive to our house. She made me […]
Read moreYou know, I like to refrain, for the most part, from this kind of discourse because, really, it makes me tired. And I have So Many Other Things to think about. Honestly, I do. But I am Sick Unto Death of this Carolina-Duke rivalry, and this is not because “my” team (that’s what one is […]
Read moreI’d like to introduce you to a new resident of our home: Mr. Wally Face. He’s been living with us for about a month now, maybe longer…. ever since Bill got a hold of a piece of drifting sticky tack left over from what I had used to hold our Christmas advent candles in the […]
Read moreThat’s a new word for me. I learned it on Tuesday afternoon while meeting with my professor. He’s German, you see, and so could translate for me what Woods did not translate when he produced the English version of Joseph and His Brothers. Schadenfreude is this: the pleasure one takes in the misfortune of another. […]
Read moreI left campus at 12:50 and drove to that other campus, Duke, only ten or so minutes away. There is Absolutely No Parking for people like me on a weekday, so I parked in the Gardens lot and then walked through the Gardens to get to the Allen Building, which houses so much that is […]
Read moreBusy. That’s how it is these days. And I’m talking Every Minute. I’m talking I have to remind myself to rest here. I’m talking I don’t have time to write in this blog right now but I’m doing it because, honestly, it helps to keep me sane. Really Stinking Busy. Yes, I’m walking with my […]
Read moreEmma Grace turned six on February 16th. Six. I remember turning six. We were living in Japan at the time, in our little American compound somewhere on the Japan Sea, and because there were so few children in the neighborhood, all the children in the neighborhood were invited, regardless of their age.I remember that my […]
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