from supper– a magnificent pork loin, straight out of Julia Child’s cookbook, and a salad of spinach and apples. from laundry– piles and piles and piles of it, clean and folded and waiting (still) for me to put away. from homework duty– though Everett had finished his and Emma Grace almost, but she would finish […]
Read moreO the dragons are gonna fly tonightThey’re circling low and inside tonightIt’s another round in the losing fightOut along the great divide tonight We are aging soldiers in an ancient warSeeking out some half remembered shoreWe drink our fill and still we thirst for moreAsking if there’s no heaven what is this hunger for? Our […]
Read moreI woke the boys with a song yesterday morning. The Morning Song, in fact. You know it, don’t you? Good morning to you!Good morning to you!We’re all in our places with sunshiny facesand this is the wayto start a good day. That’s it. That, and a plain, sing-songy kind of melody which can become Oh-So-Annoying […]
Read moreLucas van Valckenborch’s painting Winter Landscape hangs in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, Austria and also all over my coffee table. It’s been there for about five days now, and its over 500 loose pieces have been reduced to just over one hundred, I’m guessing. My progress has been slow but steady, and certainly slower […]
Read moreI wrote this a long time ago now. Four+ years, in fact. Time goes faster and faster all the time. Have you noticed, too? But I’m writing here tonight because I want to add some things to that other, referenced above. And I could have added more before now: in the four+ years that have […]
Read moreThe four page (4 Page. Four. Page.) spread in today’s New York Times hails the upcoming Twilight New Moon film as “The Movie Event of the Year.” Hmmm. Don’t misunderstand me. I was taken with the movie Twilight. I didn’t see it in the theater, but Bill and the boys and I watched it this […]
Read moreIn the past few days, I have written many pages of comments on my students’ papers, paragraph after paragraph of report card comments, and five (now nearly six) letters of recommendation. My tennis elbow– earned two years ago when I spent every spare minute typing away at my Master’s thesis– has recently (are we surprised?) […]
Read moreFull swing– that’s where we are now. I’m just returned from Parent Night, and the school year is four weeks old. It feels like normal, feels like the way it’s always been. I don’t remember (for now) sleeping in on weekday mornings and having long days to putter around the house. We’re used to it; […]
Read moreIn the last few days, the humidity here has almost disappeared– the humidity that all summer hangs like gauze in the air and on my body, so that out for a walk or even going to the car I feel I’m wearing a shirt I don’t remember putting on. But sometime on Sunday evening the […]
Read moreWilliam turned thirteen (13!!!) on Saturday, and on Friday night just before bed, he just sort of turned soft and quiet, and he said to me, “I’m feeling nostalgic.” And later, “I’m not sure I want to turn thirteen.” So I had to be strong for both of us, and tell him that a number […]
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