Stop, Time
There is a time in every parent’s life, when you can’t fix much of anything anymore for your offspring. Not because they are difficult, or …
There is a time in every parent’s life, when you can’t fix much of anything anymore for your offspring. Not because they are difficult, or …
“There is always time for another last minute” ― Terry Pratchett, Hogfather It wasn’t the best news, but we aren’t giving up. And it never …
I know the way to be a writer is to write. I’ve told that to students. I used to write every day. Somewhere along the …
Every time I think I’m going to give up with this long long long standing blog, I come back. This is a long one, hold …
The Winter Solstice is one of my most thoughtful times. I suppose because I spent so much time with darkness. That sounds terribly dramatic–and it was until I found a way to live with it.
Paint paint fix fix, sell the house, buy the house, move across the country, nervous breakdown.
Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death.
~R. D. Laing
You know what is needed? Clothes for young girls…tweens and teens, who are tall but are NOT juniors. They are NOT 16, or 17. They …
At some point this week our wonderful girl is going to turn 13. 13. I never understood when grownups said that time actually moves so …
I picked Em up from school yesterday and as usual, we talked about her day. It’s tough to concentrate when she doesn’t feel well, but …
J with his cat Zak. Em leaning on him. This picture says a lot somehow about our family. I don’t know what exactly but I …
I suppose if you look at things from a more optimistic point of view, they turn out to be adventures, not terrifying hurtles down the …
The prompts from both places are similar…what nourished your soul this year, what was your best moment. I would say we haven’t had many of …
The Martini tree, a photo by jyllianm on Flickr. We are not a big Christmas family. We are, as you have probably noticed a big …
Everything in its Place I want a clean and orderly place to sit and think, or make a thing. I want an unstained and …