Thank you for all the well wishes and thoughtful questions! I really appreciate both. A lot. Glenda: After four years “in community” through your blog, do you feel reflecting and exploring themes for the blog have helped you better navigate and enjoy the daily moments of your days? Enhanced living in any way? I definitely [...]
Today is my four year anniversary in this space. Which is amazing, to me. To mark the date, and because I’m brain dead and slightly heartbroken these days (my beloved Kelly Diels said this {as usual} better than I ever could) I thought I’d follow Corinne’s able lead and ask you if there is anything [...]
“Besides realizing that two glasses of wine can make you drunk, I have had this revelation: that you can look at something, close your eyes, and see it again and still know nothing – like staring at the sky to figure out the distances between stars.” – Ann Beattie, Jacklighting Sometimes when I look at [...]
I’ve written before, years ago, about my conflicted feelings about “the mundane quotidian routines[that] are both safety net and cage.” Today I was thinking about how real life, in its banal detail, both hems us in and keeps us intact. There are times when I truly think that if it were not for the demands [...]
In my guest post at Karen Maezen Miller’s site, I wrote about the expression it is what it is. I’ve always found the saying annoying, honestly, an oft-repeated hymn to trite capitulation. And then, as seems to happen a lot, I realized the folly of my ways. In a single flash of light, the startle [...]
I’m late with this year’s end-of-summer post, but I’ve been sifting through the richness of the last few months, feeling the happy and the heavy memories drift through my fingers, parsing what it is that rises to the top. I re-read my reflections on the summer of 2009 and was struck, predictably, I guess, by [...]
Dear Whit, Today you start kindergarten. I’m astonished, in a way both cliched and powerful, that we are here. For three years you didn’t say much of anything. Your first preschool teacher, in fact, urged us to have you evaluated by a speech therapist. She even gently suggested that you might have cognitive delays. Within [...]
First day in the Red Room, September 2004 First day in the Yellow Room, September 2005 First day in the Blue Room, September 2006 First day of Beginners, September 2007 First day of Kindergarten, September 2008 First day of First Grade, September 2009 The time is whistling past my ears, it’s flying so fast. Tomorrow, [...]
I thoroughly enjoyed reading more about Devon‘s life, history, and preferences big and small when she answered the questions in this meme. I was flattered to see myself named as someone she’d be interested in seeing answer them, and so I do so now. Please go check out Devon’s blog – the name alone charmed [...]
Dear Q, How is it possible that this picture, at the best 21st birthday party ever (sunflowers + live music + beer + magic light = heaven) was taken sixteen years ago? No, no, no. Impossible. Also impossible: that bleached jeans and huge nubby sweaters ever seemed like good sartorial choices to me! I wrote [...]
