I finished my gloves last week. Now I get to see if they keep my hands warm. ( Read more... )

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It is with joy and sorrow I announce that I have earned a Master of Science in Nursing, Generalist. I will not be a midwife. As the semester continued it became increasingly clear that my quiet, gentle personality could not compete with the chaos that sometimes accompanies birth in our culture. I am heartily disappointed that I will not be catching ( Read more... )

My daughter asked me, "In opposite world, do people learn backwards?"

I said, "Do you mean do people go to school to forget?"

"...yeah"

"I think," I said, "that people go to school to forget, here in forward world."

Dusting ( Read more... )

What happens to a dream deferred?

Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore--
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over--
like a syrupy sweet?

Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.

Or does it explode?

Langston Hughes

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I planted seeds today, with my ten year old ( Read more... )

What is it about growing up on the right side (as apposed to the left side) of the Atlantic that makes one say, "Chyz-ler" instead of chys-sler?

Just because you have a stiff upper lip doesn't mean you can't slur with the best of us!

I walked barefoot up Washington Ave today.

They keep their sidewalks clean in the minne-apple