Okay, sometimes I lose sight (only for an instant, of course) of just what cool and excellent people my children are. When they are refusing to _____________ (pretty much any phrase will do here), or when they are in the throes of a full-frontal drama attack, or when they make me feel like I don’t [...]
Entries from March 2008
March 14, 2008
the gift of spring
What an insanely gorgeous day. The kind of beautiful, sunny, it-smells-like-spring-and-thank-god-because-the-whole-city-is-f*ing-cranky and-who-can-be-in-a-bad-mood-when-it’s-finally-warm day that makes you thankful to live where the winters are long. Without that tedious winter driving you to the brink, you can’t fully appreciate the gift of the newly warm and nearly verdant. There’s such hope in a day like this [...]
March 12, 2008
an abundance of pleasures
No matter how you try to spread ‘em around, events insist on traveling in packs. Like you pick a day for one great thing and the gravitational pull of its awesomeness drags others to fill in all the days around it. It sounds like I’m complaining, doesn’t it? Which is ridiculous, given that this week [...]
March 11, 2008
Bedtime
It’s bedtime again. My son, tucked in only moments ago, has already boarded the train to dreamland. But my daughter is resisting the inevitability of it with all of the force her seven-year-old will can muster. It’s a force to be reckoned with. “I need to go to the bathroom. My hands are dry. There’s [...]
March 9, 2008
the power of perspiration
Whenever I am feeling completely out of sorts, when the list of things to accomplish far exceeds my ability to complete it, when I feel my life spiraling out of control, I reach for…the scrub brush. A bucket full of hot soapy water, a brush, two rags (one for kneeling on and one for drying), [...]
March 8, 2008
And today I am 40
My birthday has landed, and I woke up with a cold. How poetic. Forty. I can’t believe it’s here. This is a challenging one—putting me in a very strange place emotionally. Mid-life-crisis-y I suppose. If only I had the money to buy the…what is it that women are supposed to do when they crack? If [...]
March 2, 2008
Jumping in
I’m starting fresh. My entry into the online world of words has been slow, but I have begun it, and this blog is my phase 2. I started on a writers forum, which was great, for a short while. Getting immediate feedback on my work was helping to light a fire under my behind to [...]
