Archive for June, 2008

…of my life.
The half that works outside of the home.
The part that utilizes both what I know as a writer and a teacher.
So, over the sweltering summer (okay it’s been cold for most of June, but I love that, I won’t complain for anything about that…) I’ve been enjoying my kids and their activities and [...]

So, how many of you actually write down passwords and usernames for all the millions of sites and services that require them in your life?
Now, don’t fib.
Am I the only one who needs a hint as to this username or that password everytime I’m prompted to put one in?
I don’t balance a check book in [...]

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…To be young means
To be all on edge, to be held waiting in
A packed lounge for a Personal Call
From Long Distance, for the low voice that
Defines one’s future. The fears we know
Are of not knowing…

–WH Auden–The Age of Anxiety

So, my children’s lives, filled with fun activities, at times [...]

This seems like such an easy task–interacting with educated people who have the same goals and love kids and the work they do. But, as I plan the summer workshops I’ll do with a group of teachers I keep getting stuck.
It’s not that I don’t have the content at my fingertips. Planning writing workshops, making [...]

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What are these things you wonder. Your gut tells you they’re something a bit grotesque though your eyes can’t say why that’s so, you can just feel it as you recoil from your screen.
And your instincts are right. These winged objects are actually the "SuperLite Adhesive Bra" I wore to a [...]

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So, I’ve mentioned my couch fetish before. The fact that the perfect couch–and the definition of that is wide and deep for me–stops me in my tracks, makes me consider where yet another one might fit into my life and house is no secret. So, due to the [...]

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Seriously.
There’s NOTHING on TV but foolish political commentators who make me sick to my stomach, though I feel like I have to watch just so I know what’s out there in the world.
And, then there’s this.
Kids doing something fun on a beautiful day.
Yes, I know it looks like the toddler [...]

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Since I have zero amount of minutes in which to blog during daylight hours, I will have to take this night-time to tell you I’m still fat. In case you were curious.
I can’t even weigh myself this week.
The kids are out of school and I have exactly no time to exercise [...]

My friend Nicole buried her baby yesterday. Little Tai lived for 18 hours before dying.
Nine months ago Nicole called to say she was going to have a third child. I immediately made fun of her, cursed her with triplets as she was going to have the third child I always wanted, but she said she [...]

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Jake Shoop has yet to attend a Pirate game they haven’t won. They ought to put him on the roster right now. You know, slot him as a mini ball-boy or let him deliver cokes to thirsty players. They can’t afford to toy with such a force. Yet…they don’t [...]