Posted in Bitching, pondering on October 31, 2007 | 6 Comments »
Sitting here, I am considering the variety of things I will write about for this upcoming NaBloPoMo marathon that, hello!, starts tomorrow. Ideas have been swirling and I am tremendously excited.. However, what’s been on mind MOST lately?
My butt.
A friend of ours in Ottawa actually fractured her tailbone and was virtually incapacitated for nearly [...]
Posted in My life on October 26, 2007 | 1 Comment »
It’s that most glorious season again and for once, I actually had a camera in my car. I took this one yesterday on my way home from school:
This was the moon this morning at about 6:30; full, fabulous and a little eerie. There really wasn’t enough light, so apologies, but the image is [...]
Posted in Friends: family you choose, Parenting, Teaching, Ten things Tuesday on October 24, 2007 | 3 Comments »
I have just signed up to participate in NaBloPoMo; in observance of National Blog Month, I will post every single blessed day in November and I am excited to flex my writer’s chops in this ambitious way. There’s a fair bit of nervousness hovering but I am pretty sure I can do it. [...]
Posted in My life, Stupidity on October 22, 2007 | 6 Comments »
I like to catalog the way other people sneeze.
Yep, this here is a highly reflective, ultra sophisticated post. About sneezing.
Also called sternutation, sneezing is the body’s way of removing an irritation from your nose. Explosively.
When I sneeze, which I have been doing a great deal of in this, the tail end of hay [...]
Posted in Family Dynamics, My life, Parenting, pondering on October 17, 2007 | 4 Comments »
At twelve and a half, my eldest daughter is in the midst of a hormonal maelstrom that is dramatically changing her body and altering her mind and her perceptions of the world. She is under the influence of a range of stimuli that include her friends (most of whom are already through puberty), her [...]
Posted in Bitching, Teaching, pondering on October 15, 2007 | 6 Comments »
As an English teacher, I am employed to help my community technical college students navigate through the tricky waters of English grammar so that their professional writing is clear, concise and correct. I have two sections of the basic English class this semester and these two groups are about as alike as a kumquat [...]
Posted in Family Dynamics on October 8, 2007 | 3 Comments »
My dad’s been in the hospital for a week and a half with aggressive pneumonia. He’s now, finally, out of the woods, and the doctors are cautiously optimistic that he will be able go home sometime next week.
At 74 and with a heart condition, the pneumonia has been kicking his keister. My [...]
Posted in Life with Dogs, My life on October 4, 2007 | 4 Comments »
It’s awful! Somewhere between the burning acrid fumes of truly toxic compounds and the intensely noxious stench of a burning pit of tires, the reek that seethes out of the hind quarters of a skunk is a wonder of nature. Unfortunately, that wonder completely saturated my dog late last night.
I was sitting at my [...]
Posted in My life, community on October 3, 2007 | 6 Comments »
OCTOBER THIRD AND NATIONAL DELURKING DAY!!!
I have been keeping this blog for just over a year now (Happy Anniversary, ME!), mostly to explore writing issues, wordily pick at some of the stuff life throws at my windshield, and to interact with other similarly explorative personalities. I have met some truly superlative individuals, been blown away [...]
Posted in Family Dynamics, Jewish life, Teaching, Ten things Tuesday on October 2, 2007 | 1 Comment »
1. My Dad went into the hospital last Thursday after he accidentally took my mother’s pile of medications. My mom says she, “Almost killed” her husband in order to save his life, because after they determined that his heart was fine and that the (blood thinners and blood pressure) pills had caused no [...]
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