Posted in F-F Friday, My life, Photo Friday on May 16, 2008 | 2 Comments »
My magnolia tree is young yet - it hasn’t got the size it needs to be truly magnificent, but those blossoms are amazing, aren’t they?
I’m not actually certain what this is, but I’ll be photographing it all season, so I’ll figure it out when it gets bigger.
These are wild irises! We found them growing in [...]
Posted in Friends: family you choose, pondering on May 15, 2008 | 1 Comment »
When I was in the seventh grade, I became friends with one of those people whose smile is infectious, whose warmth and kindness and quick wit makes her the sort of person who stands out from the murk of adolescent bullshit and backstabby bitches.
Back then my friend always went out of her way to celebrate [...]
Posted in Family Dynamics, My life, Teaching, Ten things Tuesday on May 13, 2008 | 7 Comments »
No particular themes for O’Mama today because randomness prevails - again.
1. This past weekend, my friend Jan came to visit me in New England from Chicago with her seven year-old daughter. This is us when I visited her when she lived in NYC and couldn’t resist poking her. Maturity runs rampant, no?
Jan and [...]
Posted in Holy Shit!, Teaching on May 8, 2008 | 7 Comments »
I refer to the vast gulfs that separate those academically able, and those who should not be in college.
Yesterday, in my public speaking class, I gave the students an opportunity to put together an impromptu speech, and I provided a random topic on each of the 14 lined note-book pages I handed out. My instructions [...]
Posted in Teaching, pondering, words on May 6, 2008 | 4 Comments »
In my public speaking class, we’ve been discussing the variety of ways we as consumers are under a constant barrage of messages trying to persuade us of SOMETHING, often using sex, implications or suggestions of lack of some thing or quality, invitations to get on or off particular bandwagons, ideologies, etc…
We get a great many [...]
Posted in My life on May 2, 2008 | 4 Comments »
I’ve a number of things making me distracted and stompy at the moment, however I am partially mollified by the sights of colorful blooms right outside my front door. AND the chocolate on my desk…
This first photo, the river of purple-y blue, shows wonderful grape hyacinths; it’s taken 4 years, but they’re starting to take [...]
Posted in Parenting, a kid's world on May 1, 2008 | 7 Comments »
Yesterday when the bus pulled up at the mouth of our driveway and deposited my two offspring (silly term: they more got pushed out than sprang off, so maybe they should be called pushedouts), my youngest daughter absently disembarked, barely noticing her surroundings.
As she walked, she was entirely, completely, utterly immersed in her book and [...]
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