Netflix delivered a copy of The Wizard of Oz to our mailbox today, so tonight I put it in to watch it with the kids. As it started, I went into another room to get something and heard Girl’s voice calling out:
“Mommy, there’s no colors!”
I held myself back from giving my kids the speech about […]
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A room of my own? Yes, I have one. And the photo to the left isn’t it. That is a photo of Virginia Woolf’s writing room.
I’m lucky to have my room, but I have to be honest: I haven’t imbued it with the respect and sacredness it deserves. That I deserve. I’m pretty sure that […]
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Yeah, I couldn’t think of a title for this post, so I gave up.
This was a nice surprise
Tonight while I was making dinner, I flipped the channel over to How It’s Made on The Science Channel. Boy likes to watch that show, and if I had to hear the Spongebob Squarepants theme song one more […]
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(There’s a meme floating around that asks, among other things, “What were you doing 10 years ago?” It’s a question to which I can give a specific answer because my memories of that time are so clear.)
The summer before, I had moved into a perfect, lovely apartment in Woodbury, Connecticut (the town is called the […]
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Last evening, I decided to mark a task off of my honey-do list. A list which is totally imaginary (and where I’m the honey and the do-er) and is more “oh yeah, lightbulbs” than “change the lightbulbs out front on Sunday.”
You’re all up to speed, I think, on the the recent travel habits of our […]
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photo by jjsglacialfun
I’ve got wanderlust today. Specifically, I’m aching to go back to Montana. This morning, I found this blog, From the Front Porch, filled with Ann’s gorgeous photos of the scenery from her I’m-envious-of-it place in Montana.
From time to time I troll the real estate listings in Montana around Flathead Lake, near […]
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Posted in my neighborhood:
That’s it? How does that call go if, let’s just say, I’m walking down the street to get the mail without my cell phone?
See, I was thinking maybe our HOA should offer a few practical, life-saving strategies for what to do right then. A few significant strategies, like:
Make yourself appear larger
Maintain […]
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Hmm, after the sprinkle of comments on yesterday’s post (wonderful, thoughtful comments–and I loved every one of them), I’m thinking that maybe it takes something more sensational to tickle your general fancy, something like Hot Doctors! or Cowboy Butts in Wranglers! to get all ya’ll’s attention, so that’s what I’m going to give you today. […]
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This may be my favorite passage, from anyone, about writing. I read it for the first time almost 10 years ago, and somehow have forgotten about it for long stretches at a time. I really should frame it and hang it above my desk. The passage is from Rilke’s only novel, The Notebooks of Malte […]
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Have you ever taken your car to the mechanic to try to diagnose that funny little noise coming from under the hood, only when he got in the car with you to drive around and listen for it, the car wouldn’t produce the funny little sound?
Today was like that here at the H household. It […]
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