Category: Everyday Stories
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The Elation of the Rescuer
I’ve written about the movie The Red Tent previously. Had been a number of years since we’d watched it so pulled it in from Netflix. Marty at first was saying that he couldn’t watch it again, that it was too much. Because he didn’t want to see it and I thought it would be too…
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Yoga
I’m trying yoga. At home. With DVDs. The kind where you go, “Wait, no, wait, I like this pose, I can do it, let me really feel it before you race on to something else!” I’ve only been doing it a week (well, I did it for a week a month ago then stopped). Whenever…
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In an uncertain world, it's desired your mother should have a crystal ball
“Redwall” is a children’s book about mice and other animals at war with rats. Marty spent quite a while this past winter reading “Redwall” to H.o.p. at night. This past weekend H.o.p. got the “Redwall” TV series (first part) from Netflix. This is the state of conversation around here. Marty: They got it all wrong!…
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Friendly advice for a future Googler
Do NOT, when recovering from a head cold, get the hiccups, take a mouthful of carbonated water flavored with lime, stand on your head and instead of swallowing said water (which will realign the diaphragm and is the only way I can get rid of hiccups) accidentally let almost the whole mouthful of water flow…
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Oops! The sound you now hear is millions and millions of cribs being pushed back down pearl-encrusted streets, away from heaven, to the asphalt streets of limbo, but at least they're not on the rhinestone streets of hell (or maybe they are)
Well, concerning my previous post on all those millions and millions of babies (plus my sibling twins) being released from Limbo, apparently there was someone scrambling around Technorati looking for blogs that brought the subject up because This is the Catholic Church, and its teachings on this issue haven’t changed for its entire existence, and…
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That sound you hear is millions and millions of cribs rolling over pearl-encrusted streets toward heaven
Well, aren’t we all going to rest easier about all those little babies, stretching back to the dawn of humankind, which died before benefit of sprinkled baptism? Rome has decided that they all aren’t gurgling in Limbo cribs, eyes attempting to focus on the restrained delights of a distant heaven dangling from a mobile just…
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Polyester. Yuck.
My son is seriously expressing his sense of style. Not that he cares about style. He cares about comfort and blue. If it looks comfortable and it’s blue, that’s what he wants. Sick this past week, I didn’t go on the shopping expedition to Old Navy for Spring and Summer clothes, which H.o.p. badly needed…
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Some Old Late 1970s Photos
Some old late 1970s photos from the 2nd apartment we lived in while in college. Several old paintings of mine can be glimpsed in a couple of them.
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There's Jazz On The Other Side of the Great Divide
If I don’t write this kind of thing here, I’ll never remember it. I don’t believe H.o.p. will mind, when he’s older. * * * * * H.o.p.: Mom, I’ve gotten over my deathitis! I now think of it as crossing to the other side of the road. Me: That’s what many people call it.…
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To the person who got here Googling "glued Legos versus unglued Legos"
Dear Person Who Got Here Googling Glued Legos Versus Unglued Legos: Yes, definitely. Take your several big containers of assorted Legos. Liberally pour glue over them all. Let me know how it goes. * * * * Dear Person Who Got Here Googling Reimagining yourself: It’s generally preferred to letting someone else reimagine yourself for…
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Little Liar
H.o.p. has been experimenting with expressions and nonsense sayings he’s heard elsewhere. For example…tonight. H.o.p.: Mom, mom, when dad comes in, tell him his mom eats gym shorts. Me: I can’t tell him that. I don’t know what it means. H.o.p.: Yes, yes. Tell him his mom eats gym shorts. Me: I can’t say that…
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Fun with the Musée de l’Elysée
The Musée de l’Elysée, Lausaznne, is running an exhibit titled, “We Are All Photographers Now!” on “The rapid mutation of amateur photography in the digital age”. They’re displaying photographs submitted by individuals from around the world. If you have a web connection you can contribute. By simply uploading your photograph, it will become a part…