Most days are seamless as water. Weeks, months– these things flow into one another like so many overlapping bays. We have no river mouth, no branching tributary to mark our place. We drift on the current unaware, and then suddenly find ourselves looking for landmarks in a place devoid of any landscape at all: “Did […]
Read moreSo 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 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 moreSo 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 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 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 […]
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