Music. It speaks to us. It’s like when you fall in love for the first time and you listen to “What a Wonderful World” and you identify with every single lyric – I DO see trees of green AND red roses! – and then maybe you break up with that love and you hear “Against […]
Archives for February 2010
Romance and changes and old people, oh my!
February 6, 2010 by 1 Comment
I have a piece – about romance, ooh la la – up over at Yummy Mummy. See you there, I hope!
Stroller-free
February 5, 2010 by 5 Comments
We sold our stroller this week and although we haven’t used it for many months – I can’t even recall when, exactly, we used it last – it feels strange that it is gone. For the first time in six years, I am stroller-less. At one point I actually had four strollers of varying child […]
Groundhog Day is the stupidest day of the year.
February 2, 2010 by 3 Comments
I was about to launch my annual diatribe against Groundhog Day, and thought I would actually look up a bit of the history behind this dubious so-called holiday. It turns out that modern day North American Groundhog Day has roots in European weather lore, the pagan festival of Imbolc, and the medieval Catholic holiday of […]
