Mondy and I have no voice

I pretty much croak.
Which is nominally acceptable in a frog, but not so much with a human.
Over my visit with my kids last weekend, my eldest daughter lovingly shared her nasty germies, which subsequently besieged my immune system and had me on my ass most of Saturday and Sunday. There were perks – I slept [...]

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Ten Things Tuesday

1. Boo came back from Orlando last evening at 8:15 and then had to sit and do her put-off math homework (geometry) until 11:20.  She stomped, smashed, yelled, cried and under no circumstances were Bob and I going to let her just blow off her homework to get much-needed rest. I did say I wished [...]

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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 – (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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Ten Things Tuesday: A few of my Favorite Things

I have stuff on my mind.
Last year in a class I taught in critical thinking, I asked students to imagine they could take just ten things from a burning home; I was interested in the things, but I was more interested in the whys and wherefores behind those things. I was disappointed but not surprised [...]

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Talking to outer space: the skype phenomenon

Talking to someone on Skype feels kind of like a prison visit. Ok, an especially congenial and animated visit.
No, I have never actually visited anyone in prison, but enough scenes of two people whispering into phones on the wall  with a glass partition separating them have crossed my eyeballs to get a decent feel for [...]

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