We decided which super powers we’d like to have.Grace: flightWhit: reading peoples’ mindsme: time travel Email this post
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Monthly Archives: October 2008
October 30, 2008 – 7:53 pm
It is not joy that makes us grateful; it is gratitude that makes us joyful.- Brother David Steindl-Rast Email this post
One Secret Thing
October 29, 2008 – 11:10 am
I just read Sharon Olds’ newest book of poetry, One Secret Thing. I think Olds is one of the best poets working today and often think of her affectionately as the literary daughter of the three women I wrote my thesis on (Sexton, Rich, Kumin). This most recent book is a meditation on motherhood and [...]
October 29, 2008 – 6:48 am
First cold day of the year. These are last year’s hats and it’s clearly time to step up from size 18-24 months for Whit.As we drove down Walden Street, which is being ripped up, Whit commented on how bumpy it was. me: “Yes, I biked down this street last night to dinner and it was [...]
the end of a birthday
October 27, 2008 – 5:26 pm
Shortly after going to bed last night Gracie got up to go to the bathroom (in every way, my daughter). I was folding laundry in my room and asked her to come in. We sat together at the end of the bed, I read her this special classic that a wonderful blog friend had sent [...]
Happy Sixth Birthday
October 26, 2008 – 5:53 pm
Happy birthday Gracie! Six years old today. You were tired and cranky this evening, worn out from four straight days of activity, attention, and sugar at Disneyworld.Still, you smiled going to sleep and asked me to sing you happy birthday “one last time.” And so I did, blinking back tears, singing it twice. Birthdays – [...]
October 25, 2008 – 1:39 pm
In honor of tomorrow’s 6th birthday, some classics of Grace over the years. Email this post
October 24, 2008 – 1:00 pm
Might be time to kick my sartorial self up a notch. I came downstairs today wearing a pair of beat-up black ballet flats (instead of my standard Converse or other sneakers) and Whit looked at me with surprise. “Are you going to Providence, Mummy?” “No, Whitty, why?” “Where are you going into those beautiful shoes, [...]
October 21, 2008 – 7:19 pm
went to a wonderful Obama fundraiser tonight with Bouff. Claire Messud read two quotes which really resonated with me: There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected. This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.- Franklin Roosevelt, 1936 Democratic convention When power [...]
Thoughts on difference
October 20, 2008 – 9:37 am
Different is not bad. I have been thinking about what I wrote about Whit yesterday and realize that the people who have taught me the most in my life – about what it is to love, about who I am, about ways of approaching and undersatnding the world – are the most different from me. [...]
