Monthly Archives: May, 2009
Random Bullets of Updates
I don’t remember where I first saw that phrase– Phantom Scribbler, probably? But it’s a great way to cram a bunch of tidbits into one post, so here goes: * The girls’ birthday party was a smash hit, which you know if you saw the 50-plus pictures I uploaded on Facebook this weekend! They made …
Rambling Rose
Rambling Rose, originally uploaded by SingMyself. We had a lovely holiday weekend, and I hope you did too!
My “Little” Brother No More
Today my younger brother graduates from college. There is a nine-year age gap between us, so he has always seemed almost impossibly young to me, but now, he is moving into adulthood, not my “little” brother anymore. He’ll be getting jobs, making a home for himself, and generally growing up. It’s funny to think now …
Lucky Number: Seven
This Friday, my girls turn seven. Since they turned four, I’ve been saying that each age is my favorite age, and this age is no different. I’ve always wanted to write funny, clever and heartfelt essays about my darling girls, but I seem to have trouble writing about my girls in any interesting way– something …
Interred With Their Bones
My father-in-law always has a book or two for me when I visit their house, like we did for Mother’s Day– he likes historical biographies, historical fiction, and historical thrillers (noticing a trend?). This is but one of the many ways in which I lucked out in the in-law lottery, and I hope you all …
Macbeth Set Free
This year marks the second year I have taught Macbeth, also known as “the Scottish play” if you are theatrical and/or superstitious. I really enjoyed teaching it last year, but knew that I was not doing the most comprehensive job I could have, and since it is a core text for our curriculum, I really …
For the Mothers
[Sonnets are full of love, and this my tome] by Christina Rossetti Sonnets are full of love, and this my tome Has many sonnets: so here now shall be One sonnet more, a love sonnet, from me To her whose heart is my heart’s quiet home, To my first Love, my Mother, on whose knee …
College, Life, and Life After College
My younger brother graduates from college in a few weeks, my sister-in-law graduates from law school shortly afterward, I’m working with a lot of about-to-be-grads in my college course right now, and next week, I begin teaching my juniors about writing the college essay. So I think it’s safe to say that college is on …
Evaluation Notes, Part One
Because I often feel like a poster child for Imposter Syndrome, I had worried that my evaluation process at Girls’ School would uncover some nasty mess of faults and flaws that I’d succeeded in keeping secret until my eval committee unmasked them. Why yes, that is the first question on the diagnostic quiz. It’s a …
On Happiness (one post of many)
“It is essential to happiness that our way of living should spring from our own deep impulses and not from the accidental tastes and desires of those who happen to be our neighbors, or even our relations.” –Bertrand Russell This is sometime a struggle for me, so an excellent reminder to have for myself, and …
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