I’ve really been thinking about it for awhile now. I was thinking about it, in fact, when I was getting my hair cut a few weeks ago. I even mentioned it to my wonderful hairdresser– and this is not the first time, either. But both times– this most recent time and also back in May– […]
Read moreWhen the light is getting low at the end of the day, and there isn’t really a breeze to speak of, but then you notice that there is one, because of the leaves. And the leaves are just twisting quietly on their stems, independent of each other– not like when the wind is strong and […]
Read moreI heard somewhere once that every cashew plant produces only one cashew. Only One. Do you think that’s true? Yikes. (grading now….)
Read moreSo I still haven’t mailed them all out yet. Still. I wait until Sunday to work on them. That’s the one day that I’m not doing school work, and not doing house work, and can allow myself the pleasure of the individual notes that I like to put in each one. I do like to […]
Read moreEveryone seems to have an opinion on the Way It Should Be, don’t they? There Is A Way, it would seem, to write a Christmas letter, to send a holiday greeting, to make annual contact with loved-ones far-flung. And everyone’s opinion is Different. For example, some people feel Absolutely Certain that the Christmas letter should […]
Read moreThe digital thermometer has taken up residence on the kitchen windowsill. On the counter, just to the left of it, stand two bags of cough drops, two bottles of Junior Motrin, and two packages of chewable Children’s Tylenol. Also present is a long-neglected and, until recently, barely used bottle of Robitussin. I had to reach […]
Read more“Life happens for sure, but most of it is just the same thing every day with different weather and clothes.” I read that on my friend Heather‘s blog. So true, so true. In the respite from the busy-ness that the weekend affords me, thoughts along these lines have been a quiet melody in the back […]
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