Whatever life dishes out, and whatever we can make of it. . .
Posted in Lifestyle, Morning Musing, Other Stuff, Parenting on Mar 2nd, 2010
Just in. (9:18 Eastern, 3/2/03).
Weird News reports that a diminutive middle-aged woman, name withheld by authorities, was found pinned by a Latvian teen, slumped over on patio furniture behind a small suburban home in a sleepy southern city. Apparently, following a late-night rock fest, nosy neighbors called police.
The two were discovered lying among an [...]
Posted in Health, Lifestyle, Morning Musing, Parenting on Feb 23rd, 2010
Well it wasn’t Colonel Mustard. And it wasn’t the library. But it was a mop! And in the arms of a 16-year old in the bathroom, as definite back and forth motions were observed!
And the aromatic stylings of antiseptic! A clean tile floor! Then, suddenly, he was down. On his knees. By the toilet… [...]
Posted in Art Art Art, Lifestyle, Parenting on Feb 9th, 2010
Unanticipated pleasure
Last evening, for three hours, I hovered in the pleasure zone, my brain and body exquisitely in sync. This was delight the likes of which I haven’t felt in six months, or perhaps as long as a year. The kind of pleasure, intense and pervasive, that obliterates worry and fatigue as all the universe [...]
Posted in Culture, Lifestyle, Morning Musing, Parenting on Jan 28th, 2010
Are your dreams on hold? Are you floating in a perpetual state of waiting? One more number? One more indistinguishable face in the crowd, chasing through an exhausting schedule that seems like nothing more than clocking time?
You’re following the hour hand and the minute hand with your eyes, listening to the slow ticking of [...]
Posted in Lifestyle, Morning Musing, Other Stuff, Parenting on Dec 26th, 2009
Alka-Selzer time?
Did you eat too much? Drink too much? Indulge in a little seasonal gluttony? Ah, the phenomenon of the morning after – best survived by the young; nonetheless an experience familiar to those who should know better.
The morning after
Some of us remember our partying days (and nights) in college, or possibly through our twenties: [...]
Posted in Love, Other Stuff, Parenting on Dec 22nd, 2009
It’s been more than a month since well-known blogger, Anissa Mayhew, age 35, suffered a massive stroke. She is wife to Peter, and mother to Nathaniel, Rachael, and Peyton.
Anissa’s husband began to chronicle the watching and waiting, the slow progress, and the arduous battle that the family is waging. Anissa continues to improve.
Please read what [...]
Posted in Lifestyle, Love, Morning Musing, Other Stuff, Parenting, Travel on Nov 6th, 2009
I was thinking about my in-laws the other evening. I loved them, and haven’t seen them in nearly 10 years. They are a close knit family, grounded, smart, and unpretentious. We communicated in an amusing mix of languages, and got along well for more than a decade.
I remember how proud my father-in-law was when I [...]
Posted in Lifestyle, Parenting, Relationships, Technology on Sep 22nd, 2009
A quick link, with more views regarding “online time,” technology, and parenting. How parents are serving as models. Things we need to know. Decisions – thoughtful ones – by parents, for their relationships.
Here’s a clip I liked from Frontline’s Digital Nation Correspondent Douglas Rushkoff, talking about technology and his young daughter.
Be sure to watch [...]
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