Yesterday I was so blue and everything seemed bleak and grim: my legs ache and hurt constantly, there are unspeakable tragedies all over the world, I need to do the soccer scheduling, I have to write an article for the community newsletter, the sky is grey, it’s been snowing for five days, it’s cold and […]
Screw you, Daylight Savings. Screw you.
March 14, 2011 by 8 Comments
Edited to add: I just discovered that today is Pi Day! I didn’t even know Pi Day existed, but the fact of its existence has made me so suddenly happy that I almost deleted this post. Almost. But now I feel like dancing around – PI DAY! Please, a note of sympathy for my poor […]
I Also Hate Camping
March 10, 2011 by 5 Comments
Two days ago, Jake and I were driving home from the grocery store when it appeared that my street was underwater. An enormous ark-like flood of muddy water filled my street, and my first thought was that it didn’t seem warm enough to melt that much snow, when I noticed that the water was bubbling […]
A Tale of Two Closets
March 5, 2011 by 12 Comments
Well, it’s one closet really. The other day I was making my bed and I looked up and saw this: From this view it would appear that my husband has bogarted all the closet space. All those shirts, neatly hung on the upper tier, meanwhile I have a couple of hoodies squished on the bottom […]
At that moment I knew. I knew the way you know about a good melon.
March 4, 2011 by 7 Comments
A while back, I read Gwyneth Paltrow’s GOOP newsletter, something I never do unless my attention is directed to it. This particular newsletter – which I cannot find archived, for some reason – dealt with how to be organized. I was particularly interested because, not to overly congratulate myself here, I consider myself to be […]
I never slept through Money Never Sleeps
February 1, 2011 by 8 Comments
The boys had a day off of school today, and it went the way such days often go: with happiness distributed like a double bell curve, peaking in the mid-morning while pajamas are still on, bottoming out in the early afternoon, and then peaking again, after some activities instigated by myself, only to start the […]
This is the end, Christmassy friend.
December 28, 2010 by 6 Comments
It’s all over, people. I know some people leave their tree and decorations up until the New Year, some people leave them up until Epiphany, but my festive spirit and accompanying décor had been up for over a month and it was high time to reclaim the living room. Yesterday I looked around me and […]
