Grace inherited a lot of things from me: my cleft chin, my exquisite-to-the-point-of-pain sensitivity, my standard-issue brown eyes, my deep desire to please, and my strong preference to be in control. She also seems to have inherited … my bladder. The child pees constantly. All night long and all day long. Crikey. Long road ahead [...]
We celebrated Christina’s birthday last night. Started out at a cocktail party (somewhat random, but lovely) at Winston’s and then went to the Met Bar for dinner. The night was entertaining, sweet, and early, three qualities I attribute in spade to my dearest dearest friends. I think the most classic moment was when Elizabeth was [...]
8am. The children are still sleeping. I’ve been up since about 6, when I started tossing and turning around and finally got up after 7. This is nature reversed.It’s also pouring, pouring, pouring, hurricane style rain. Nice mid April! Email this post
Another sun-through clouds photo, from this morning by Whit’s school. I read one of my favorite bloggers today writing about the process of her separation. She wrote so achingly beautifully about how wisdom comes at unexpected times, about the strange terrain she was walking. My favorite passage was when she told a story of someone [...]
I listened to the end of Obama’s book today driving home from Providence. He talks eloquently about his wife, Michelle, and about his growing awareness of and sensitivity to the challenges she faced as they had children and she struggled to reconcile what he called two sides of herself. He describes a woman who wanted [...]
(Grace’s latest art, inspired by Monet’s Bridge at Giverny … framed for someone special!) Ran today, very painful after a week off due to the yuck cold. The gods were shuffling my ipod, though, because every song definitely played to where my head already was. A few excerpts below. Make fun of the dreck I [...]
I’m feeling quite royally uninspired right now … tired from a wakeful night, and still getting over a nasty cold that knocked me sideways. Trying to be disciplined about blogging and thinking the topic will come to me? So it’s Tuesday night, I’m listening to a new mix I made for a friend and getting [...]
I have always loved this poem, and on this gray day of endless waiting for Comcast and doctors appointments, it provides some not-completely-understood comfort: The Waking (Theodore Roethke) I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.I feel my fate in what I cannot fear.I learn by going where I have to go. We think [...]
It is a gloomy gray day, both rainy and cold, not at all April-like. I’m thinking of Lisa, whose birthday it is today, and her assertion that it usually snows on her birthday. It could easily turn to sleet today, that’s the mood of the day for sure.I have cancelled everything I had scheduled in [...]
I vaguely recall a dumb TV show about kids saying the darndest (is that even a word?) things. I’ve been thinking lately that actually parenting makes you say things randomer than you ever imagined. I have one example and heard another from Brooke today. Please share the strange sentences you’ve uttered to your progeny in [...]
