Last week we attended a funeral out of state. The trip got me thinking good and hard about what family really means. You hear talk about family being that which you create. But what of those people whose blood you share? Who really ARE your kin but with whom you have no relationship for reasons [...]
I returned again this year to the Open House of the grammar school we want Sun ultimately to attend. I walked away confident in our decision to send her there for grammar school but prefer where she is now for preschool. However, I have since learned that her current school does not offer a 3-day-per-week [...]
It’s never good when my posts are named for Police songs that are 15 years old. And therein lies the whole of man’s plight. Human time does not run in a circle; it runs ahead in a straight line. That is why man cannot be happy: happiness is the longing for repetition. ~Milan Kundera, The [...]
Sun cried in the middle of the night. We called her to our bed and all three of us went back to sleep. A few hours later, I awoke with Sun in my arms. There was peace. And I thought, “what was that bothering me yesterday?” Then I remembered. And the obligation of guilt kicked [...]
Looking back, the signs were there. But when you aren’t looking, how can you see them? So today when my period turned angry and stopped me in my tracks, I assumed it was what I’m told about ALL my new ailments: It’s yet another sign of aging. Then the flow got really heavy. No worries, [...]
With this recession going on, and what we me gardening and all, oh, and having a terrible two on our hands, we decided to STOP eating out. We’ve cut eating out down by about 90%. Seriously. I’ve been cooking a lot more, and so has my husband. We’ve been so thrifty! I even lost a [...]
I drop Sun off at daycare once a week. Last week, there was an, er, incident. I thought I’d blog about it and then decided to let it pass. And it stayed with me and came up again today in conversation. Considering it is STILL bugging me, I thought I’d throw it out here. After walking [...]
Summer’s over. How do I know? I am returning to my “normal” work schedule. Since returning from maternity leave 2+ years ago, I’ve worked in the office Monday, Wednesday and Friday of each week. For the summer, we started Sun in official daycare twice a week–Tuesdays and Thursdays, the days I usually watched her. So [...]
We are going on vacation in a few days. CS is a comics lover, and I love CS. So each year, we head back to the city that married us and go to the Comic Convention in San Diego. This year, my sister will join us to help with Sun. I so look forward to [...]
I was the youngest of five children. Which means that I had NO control over the radio dial having never had the right to sit shotgun in the front seat. Hell, I was happy for the days I got the back seat and not the way-back backward-facing seat of the station wagon. I grew up [...]