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Unloading
When my dad died a number of years ago, he had already cleaned out his office at work, but there were still four or five filing cabinets of files from his professional life at home, and since my mother couldn't bear to face it, it was up to me to clean them out. I think I saved maybe four pieces of paper, and the rest got recycled ( Read more... ) -
On Being a Parent
The elder son is off to college again, after a most delightful Christmas vacation, and I am sad sad sad ( Read more... ) -
Tired of Teenagers
Sometimes I get really sick of teenagers--both my own and the ones I have to deal with all day in school. Usually everything is great. Usually the kids in school are "with me." Usually I get super-energized teaching and think it's all worthwhile ( Read more... ) -
Sick of Reading/This Year's Books
Do you ever get sick of reading? Feel like it's just sucking your life away? That you're missing out on REAL life because you're spending all your time reading ( Read more... ) -
Midwinter uckiness
I don't know why I should keep having uncomfortable dreams. One boy as a toddler, and I'm desperately trying to a cross busy street to escape to somewhere, and I'm afraid we'll get separated. The other boy as a baby, only he belongs to someone else, and I see him, and yearn after him, but he's not mine. So I wake up, and can't go back to sleep ( Read more... ) -
Sleeplessness
Tomorrow, Elder Son and I leave for Michigan. It seems very odd that I have to go to school to teach today. Irrelevant to my life, which at this moment is all about ES leaving for college. He is so ready, and I don't know how I'm going to stand having him gone. Of course I have to, but still, I'm going to miss him SO much. -
Diet plans that don't work, but which are still a good idea
I need to lose ten to fifteen pounds. I have no interest in counting calories, or points, or whatever else that people "on diets" are supposed to do. I just want to be healthy and to not have to think about what I'm eating. Gaining unwanted fat comes from habits over long periods of time. Throughout my life, the first excess came from the year ( Read more... ) -
Bats
All summer long there have been little turds on the bridge right outside my back door. They look like mouse turds, only a little bigger, and a little more ragged on the ends. I never thought that much about them. Animals do, after all, poop, and it was outside, and who am I to say what poops where. I run a continual battle with mice indoors, ( Read more... )
