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 …
Category: The Bean
Another last minute
“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 …
Share this:
Just write
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 …
Share this:
Not this or that, somewhere in between
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 …
Share this:
So the Darkness Shall Be the Light
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.
Share this:
Intentionally Silent, Intentionally Rowdy.
Paint paint fix fix, sell the house, buy the house, move across the country, nervous breakdown.
Share this:
Warming, as if in Spring
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
Share this:
A teen but not like that
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 …
Share this:
Sweet Bean you are 13
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 …
Share this:
A Moment as her Mother
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 …
Share this:
Time for Bed
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 …
Share this:
Nobody who says, ‘I told you so’ has ever been, or will ever be, a hero.― Ursula K. Le Guin
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 …
Share this:
In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.Leo Tolstoy
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 …
Share this:
Protected: Strike That, Reverse it
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
Share this:
The Martini tree
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 …
Share this:
Two dangers constantly threaten the world: order and disorder. Paul Valery
Everything in its Place I want a clean and orderly place to sit and think, or make a thing. I want an unstained and …
