Ten Things Tuesday: what’s going on

1. Nothing much to report on the potential earth-shakingness of the possibilities I can’t talk about yet.  Still brewing – slowly, dammit -but it smells goooooood.  Thank you for the good wishes.
Patience IS an active process, as Dingo said in comments on my spider entry, and it takes lots of regular energy to reinforce it.  [...]

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Ten Things Tuesday

1. Kids are on break this week, which means a lot of Wii playing, baking (Miss Boo loves to create things in the kitchen, which keeps her from being sucked in, zombielike, to the computer) and seeing friends.
2. My twin has offered to take out on on town in Boston on Friday and I am [...]

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Ten Things Tuesday: Bread of Affliction

Passover ends on Thursday after sundown at which point the matzah, what my daughter contemptuously calls “cardboard,” can be sidelined for just about anything leavened. Boo has requested muffins and pies and will probably do the happy dance of pastry as the sun sets.  Poor kid; such suffering.
1. Seder for 27: FOOD.  This past Saturday [...]

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“Next Year in the White House:” Passover thoughts

That’s  THIS year: President Obama hosted a Seder in the White House last night, the first ever, EVER to occur in that residence. Traditionally, the last thing said at a seder is “Next year in Jerusalem,” but it seems Mr. Obama DID find his promised land.
I found the story to be grin inducing and the [...]

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F-F-F-F-F-F Friday

Fucking floral, frustratingly freaksome financials,  Fenomenal (work with me here) friends Friday.
Ain’t nothing blooming outside, so I jump to the favorites in my archives to make ME happy, to remind me that in times of barren and brown, blooms will come.   Yeah, things are scary right now, and although I know things will be fine [...]

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Ten Things Tuesday- Time to Pahtay

Tomorrow, Boo turns 14.
Gone are the days when a party happened at the local Y with swimming, or at the bowling alley, or even at the pottery-painting place.  Ths year, as we have done for several years, Boo is having a joint party with Anna, who is not only in Boo’s gang of friends, but [...]

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Ten Things Tuesday – (Mostly) Intangible Favorites

Last week I listed some actual, tactile objects that are among my favorite things; some, like my jewelry box,  give me pleasure for that they are, while others exist on levels far beyond their physical manifestations. My wedding band -  so much more than the weight on my hand and the gold in its composition [...]

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Nasty, Slushy, Rainy Crap: Obama goes to Canada

I had a few other options for the title of this post until I had to slog through piles of the abovementioned uck to get the garbage and recycling to the top of the driveway.
The same sort of delightful precipitation will fall upon Barack Obama when he touches down in Ottawa at 10 this morning [...]

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A Tacky Hand Out

This coming May, Boo and her middle school jazz band will be going to Florida to perform in the Magic Music Days festival.  When they made it into the competition, you all probably heard the caterwauling, yeah? About 3 weeks ago?
Boo plays saxophone and sings with “Silver Lining,” a 16-girl group who (wearing the “uniform” [...]

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Lessons from the Freedom Trail

Two weeks ago, on a blustery and cold day, Boo’s 8th grade class took a trip down to Boston’s famous Freedom Trail which leads walkers past 16 historic sites pertinent to the American Revolution they are studying. I was one of two parent chaperones and when I arrived at the school uncoffeed at 7:15. was [...]

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