Posted in Family Dynamics, My life on January 29, 2008 | 2 Comments »
On a bright and sunny deceptively cold day, the window by my desk allows me to watch my dogs cavort in the snow, They are unencumbered by lists and deadlines and obligations and I just stuck my tongue out at them. Mature, eh?
1. Our book, after weeks of edits and fiddling and file augmentation [...]
Posted in Holy Shit!, Mind blowers, My life on January 25, 2008 | 4 Comments »
It would seem that the Nigerian officials in the email below have long withheld funds that are rightfully mine. So, after I give them all my banking information, my social security number, my mother’s maiden name, my blood type and my Myers-Briggs letters, they will send me vast amounts of money to put in my [...]
Posted in Family Dynamics, Jewish life, My life on January 24, 2008 | No Comments »
It was surreal.
Driving back to my parents’ home early last Saturday morning for the funeral and Shiva for my aunt, I listened to my mp3 player and set my mind on neutral. Although very cold, the drive was relatively uneventful until I hit (well, not literally) the Champlain bridge onto the island of Montreal [...]
Posted in Family Dynamics, Food, Friends: family you choose, Jewish life, pondering on January 22, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Greetings from the north side of the US/Canada divide, from a shockingly frigid Montreal. This morning when I eventually succeeded in starting my car, the temperature read -3 F.
I have much to write about the three days I have spent here among my family and friends, but I will really compose the post that has [...]
Posted in Family Dynamics, My life on January 18, 2008 | 6 Comments »
I hadn’t seen my Auntie Shirlee is many years and then only briefly. This morning in Toronto, my aunt died.
She had Parkinson’s and was essentially dependent on others for every aspect of her care. Most of her days were spent alone in a nursing home, with a nurse in to feed, bathe and change [...]
Posted in Bitching on January 17, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I’ve been negelctful.
While Mrs. Chili, having managed to spectacularly throw out her back (I keep talking to her about recyling, but does she listen?), manages to keep up her dedication to daily blogging for, what, over a year and going, I got waylaid by a pain in the butt.
But it was a doozy.
Not only [...]
Posted in My life, Teaching, pondering on January 14, 2008 | 4 Comments »
“Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.”
Don Herold
Today, kindly, was a snow day. I say kindly because there was a very pointed lesson in the making for me about the evils of procrastination, which the N’Oreaster neatly obviated. However, when I awoke at 4 [...]
Posted in Family Dynamics, Food, Kids on January 10, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Most evenings, I get a question from one of my adorable offspring as to what delicacy I am about to create for their dining experience. Do my daughters extrapolate the likelihood of a certain meal from the evidence presented? You know, like what’s bubbling on the stove or defrosting in the sink or waiting in [...]
Posted in Mind blowers, Teaching on January 7, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I have 37 students in my first class of the new semester. One of them, a woman of about 42, shared a novel-worthy story when it was her turn to share tidbits of her life.
She has three children: 21, 7, and 19 months.
Her tubes were, “double knotted and tied,” so her last child is [...]
Posted in My life, Photo Friday on January 4, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Really, these look like stock photos from Montana, or Colorado, not the relatively snowless New England of the past few years.
I am quite certain the awe and delight I am taking in the snowy splendor will abate and I will become sick and tired of looking at (driving through and shoveling) all that white.
Not quite [...]
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