The morning air it turning slightly crisp, evenings spent outside call for sweater and scarf (yippee!), and our meals consist mostly of watermelon and corn on the cob. This summer has been the best one in recent memory: not too hot, but not cold, not too humid, not too rainy but not dry. Just perfect. But it's coming to a close and I'm not too upset about it.As I look at my front yard from inside I see the garden and children on scooters growing. I blur.
It has started. This summer is going to be a busy one for us, with a newly almost one year old who wants to move everywhere, grandparents visiting, and a new technical editing course starting for me. Not to mention…
We often discuss in my house about our values and how we ascribe value based on general cultural predetermination, our own pleasure-seeking mind, our desire to show off a status, etc. It can be a heavy discussion, but here, today,…
This weeks has passed very rapidly. I barely had time to notice it and Thursday was here and I hadn’t even thought of a post to publish here. I have been busy, trying to make a plan for the next…
Violent, fear-of-death-inducing stomach flu. Ginger ale and pretzels.. A good time to close the laptop and indulge in an overlooked bestselling mystery (Gone Girl, by Gillian Flynn).
What is your life’s work? Do you have an answer to this question? I often lose sleep at night thinking about this. It is basically the same question as “when on your death bed, what would you think made your…
Sometimes I feel a big disconnect between who I am in my head and what my life is actually in the real world. I have always had this tendency to live a half-dreamed life that would in places intersect…