So we’re riding to school this morning, and it’s a race against the clock, really it is, because Bill discovered at the last minute that he had a conference call and so suddenly I was making the lunches on top of the other stuff and because Everett forgot that it was uniform day and so– […]
Read moreIt’s been awhile. And tonight, my brain is fully loaded with a lovely little blog entry about my children. But that will have to wait, because now it is time for sleeping, and I Really Love To Sleep. To any/all of you for whom this (added) delay might conceivably be a disappointment, I am sorry. […]
Read moreSo, yeah. Maybe I am just a wee bit fixated. We’ve been home for a week now, but I’m still missing our Chicago friends.Maybe it’s just that I hadn’t seen Lynne in Over A Year. Maybe it’s just that, until last Friday evening, we had never met Gwen, that lovely and absolutely necessary addition to […]
Read moreis a single tea bag. Earl Grey. And a small packet of Genuine Scottish Shortbread Cookies. Just a small packet. Just two cookies. Just Two. And you need a day like this one, and probably a day like yesterday, and maybe even (probably) a day like the one before, to help you know that Today […]
Read moreLately in my class, the students and I have been perusing ancient Greek playwrights and philosophers. You’ve heard of them: Sophocles, Socrates, Plato. Truth is a Big Issue for these guys, and our discussion about that has led to debates about more modern and post-modern ideas. Where, exactly, is Truth? What is it? And can’t […]
Read moreWe were in Chicago this weekend, with these wonderful people.Only Friday night to Sunday afternoon, and all of us are feeling that the time was simply Too Short. We made the most of it though. And Chicago’s temperatures, which hovered around 0 all weekend, only encouraged us to stay indoors and talk and talk and […]
Read more“We’d like those,” we said to the salesman. “We’d like that washer and dryer, and we’d like to have them As Soon As Possible.” The salesman said that would be fine, but they no longer had them in stock. All they had was this pair, and they were the floor models and, as we could […]
Read moreWe were riding in the car, and Emma Grace asked me to pass the magazine back to her. It was a business magazine, but it had an image on the cover that intrigued her. “It’s an angel and a devil, Mommy,” she said to me. I could understand the angel part. In fact, I had […]
Read moreIt began in December. The week of exams, maybe the week before. Whichever week it was, it was a week that was Already Loaded, such that I came home from school at the end of each day Weary To My Bones, only to have all the jobs of homemaker and mother waiting for my attention. […]
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