The things we carry
My baby is three. Putting aside -- just for the moment -- all the accomplishments she's made in the past three years, I have felt it necessary in these past few weeks to ruminate a... More »
My baby is three. Putting aside -- just for the moment -- all the accomplishments she's made in the past three years, I have felt it necessary in these past few weeks to ruminate a... More »
This song was shared with me by my dear friend Dan, who I visited last month for the first time in five years. He has beautiful taste in music -- not always convergant with mine,... More »
I promised a while back that if anyone wanted to hear about our recent forays into new and exciting vegan recipes, I would share them. Well, one person did ask, so I'll go ahead and... More »
It's been a busy half-spring, here, and between fun things and not-so-fun-things and vacations and a funeral and the adventures of Life on Earth, I've neglected this space. I'll try to be better, especially since... More »
Our beautiful garden is starting to come to life. Wide green things are poking through the ground, and things that look like asparagus tops in several shades, buds like these in the picture there coming... More »
Shmoo has been home from the hospital since Thursday, and she'll be staying home all week, recuperating and eating soft foods and being told, over and over, not to jump on the couch or she'll... More »
Well, our health trials with Little Shmoo aren't over, though we hope this next one is easier and less dramatic than the last one. Wednesday she'll go in for a tonsillectomy, adenoidectomy, and another bronchoscopy... More »
Shmoo and I were walking from her school to Doodlebug's the other day, singing "The Wheels on the Bus." We were making up verses, and I was asking her to fill in the blanks. This... More »
How many people in the foreground of this picture have valuable opinions that count? Most of you out there would likely answer "two," counting the toddler and the adult to whom she's speaking. I think,... More »
Small Good Thing #4: Remember this face! When Shmoo is awake in the middle of the night ,or refusing to go to sleep or put on her coat or stop poking me in the side... More »