Monthly Archives: June, 2009
School’s Out for Summer
My girls are happily settled in their morning summer learning program, so here I am at my own school, posting this blog entry before I settle into working. The building’s pretty quiet without the students, but like many schools, we offer our space to a wide array of summer camps, so I’m not the only …
Bits and Bobs
If you’re looking for commentary on Michael Jackson’s death or Farrah Fawcett’s death, you’re out of luck. I was too young for Farrah, and I don’t have many memories of Michael Jackson before he had started to become Wacko Jacko. My workshop is winding down and I’m simultaneously bursting with ideas for next year and …
Mental Overdrive
Posting will probably be light this week– my girls are in California on a long-awaited trip with my MIL, but I’m at a week-long professional development workshop as well, so my blogging time will be brief, but also a lot of my mental energy is engaged elsewhere. This is my first intensive workshop like this …
Get Leave to Work
Today a friend of mine and I spent the afternoon talking about work, careers, families, spouses, money and why we make the choices we make, something I had been thinking a lot about for my own reasons (more specifically, stuff I’m not ready to blog about yet) but also for more philosophical reasons (which I …
Greener Grass
As I begin this post, typing on my couch, my girls are out in the backyard, digging in the dirt, observing worms, and playing an elaborate Harry Potter game on and around our swingset. We’re about halfway through the first book, but a lot of their friends have read them all, so they know all …
Parenthood and Poetry
Back when I first had my girls, I read a great essay in Mamaphonic: Balancing Motherhood and Other Creative Acts on the honor roll of mother-artists that each of us keeps in our head, the inspirational ones we think of who juggled the crib, the pram in the hallway, the crying child and the shouting …
One-Car Family
Today, during the course of some routine minor repairs, our mechanic (my uncle) discovered that my husband’s car needs new brakes. And air conditioning. Which all told, would cost about twice what the car is currently worth– we drive our cars right into the ground. I’m getting a significant raise in September (more on that …
Sunday in June
It’s the end of a long week at the end of a long year and your lungs are only now slowly filling up with air. It’s been raining for days. The kids are bickering, your spouse has that stir-crazy look in his eye, and suddenly the sun breaks free and the morning is ripe and …
At the End of the Tunnel
I can finally see the light at the end of the tunnel, and I’m finally convinced it’s not a train. I finished up my grades today for Single Sex School,which is a huge weight off my mind, and am trying to wrap up all the loose ends for my own girls– sending off the Brownie …
Roses and Shadows
Roses and Shadows, originally uploaded by SingMyself. After two days mostly in bed and on meds, I think the ear infection is on the retreat, but the chest/respiration aspect is still hanging in there. I still get out of breath pretty quickly, but on the upside, I’m getting a lot of reading done. So far, …
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