Potpourri 2.15.10
Monday, February 15th, 2010Springy greetings from the Pacific Northwest! I used to hate this short little month so much, until I moved to a place where February is when the first flowers bloom. Now, I’m quite fond of it. The daffodils in the neighbors’ yard look ready to pop any day now, and our irises are racing [...]
Swimmies!
Sunday, January 17th, 2010Rachel and I finally checked out the local swimwear boutique yesterday–she, to get something more suitable (hah!) for our frequent swimming schedule, and I to scope the possibilities for the next time I need a new suit. (And to buy great new flip-flops. And a cruise-worthy straw bag. And we both tried on hats, but [...]
A Reading Life
Sunday, January 3rd, 2010If my life has a lodestar, it’s books. They have been my constant companion for as long as I can remember, and the only topic of sufficient interest and variety I could devote a blog to. Other hobbies flourish and fade, and even they are a vehicle for more books in my life: captivated by [...]
Patience…
Friday, September 11th, 2009…is a virtue, one I value and must actively work on in my life. There’s so much falling-in-love, head-rushy fun in succumbing to impulse, and the pleasures of patience are an acquired taste.
Penelope Lively is doing her part to teaching me patience. I threw her book Judgment Day into my bag on the [...]
Mother’s Day
Sunday, May 10th, 2009“Everyone talks about Mother’s Day, but nobody does anything about it.”
Wait, that’s not right. Lots of people do lots of stuff for Mother’s Day: they send cards and flowers, they take their mothers, sisters and wives out for brunch or tea, they present the honorees with chocolates and jewelry. Some take a quiet [...]
My Little Book Problem
Saturday, July 19th, 2008We ran errands in the Hollywood district today: post office, farmers’ market, antique shop. A pleasant, and common, Saturday morning for us. I’ve been craving kohlrabi in much the way I imagine Rapunzel’s mother craved that rampion, and I had six (!) Bookmooch books to send off. That made a total of [...]
Iowa Spring
Monday, May 26th, 2008Oh, hello, blog! How’ve you been? My, you haven’t changed a bit! Me? Oh, you know, the usual: lots of working and walking, reading and knitting. I took a trip back to the homestead in April, and had a great week of relaxing and visiting with the family. Would [...]
Fat Money
Tuesday, January 1st, 2008It’s the first day of a brand new year, and all over the country, people are getting a start on their New Year’s resolutions. Many are likely tackling one or both of the twin bogeys of modern American life: Lose Weight and Get Out of Debt. The more I deal with both of [...]
White-ish Christmas!
Tuesday, December 25th, 2007It’s been such a happy Christmas season, starting with the NY trip and giving ourselves freedom from gift-giving pressure, to our Chicken Carolers (of whom, darn it, I didn’t think to take a picture) and our Zombie Yulesters, to four mellow days at home together, eating, drinking, and making merry; it’s all been wonderful. [...]
The Power of Lists
Monday, December 10th, 2007I’m on record as being an enormous fan of making, keeping, and working from lists. It harnesses my OCD tendencies in a positive way, takes away the stress of tracking the multitudinous details of daily life, and gives me a nice little shot of dopamine when I check off an item.
Yet little [...]