I am not feeling inspired to write.  I have a post whirling around in my head: I think I should have something to say, but what? What exactly?  When I think about tackling it ... I look at Facebook again.  or Twitter.  No one is even twittering anything interesting tonight.  This post is going to be long, I fear, and it exhausts me just thinking ( Read more... )

1) I will be flying to Vermont for Christmas, braving the surly airline industry.  With reluctance.  Because there is no other remotely sane way to get from here to there with a 10-year-old in a reasonable amount of time.  One is assuming, of course, that the plane won't be delayed an unreasonable amount of time ( Read more... )

Life is on hold. I applied for a job, I interviewed for said job, and now I'm waiting to hear.  I thought I'd know by the end of last week ... but latest word is they are still deliberating.  Nice.  Make up your minds, people ( Read more... )

Here's the thing:  I love Whole Foods.  I love the fact that when you walk into my local Whole Foods, you walk into the fruits and vegetables section, and its beautiful.  There are so many different kinds, different varieties, different colors,  that your cart fills up with lovely looking fresh food before you get out of the first section -- which ( Read more... )

 While I was on vacation in Vermont, I finally finished a book I've been reading for a while: "How to Cook a Wolf" by MFK Fisher.  Fisher wrote it in 1942, right as the US was coming out of depression and into a world war; my edition includes annotations she wrote in 1951, when she revised the text for a new edition. In my edition, these ( Read more... )

Went to Toledo this weekend for a memorial service.  I sat with my ex-husband's girlfriend who commented that it was very different from the Russian funerals in her family: everyone is weighed down with grief.  This was more restrained.  Very Presbyterian.  Of course, we were at a service for a 98-year-old woman: however loved, no one could think ( Read more... )

Haven't written in a while -- its been a busy summer.  I feel like there's barely been time to breathe.  And I need sleep.  Beautiful sleep ( Read more... )

I feel unsettled tonight, as if things are happening out there that are about to strike ( Read more... )

I just read Thers at Whiskey Fire for the first time on his home blog.  I have read him before, when he posts on Eschaton (i.e., the blog of Atrios, though as far as I know not related to the House of Atreus) -- but it is amazing how much he cleans up his act at Eschaton.  I had not particularly noticed the pulling back of punches, but to read him ( Read more... )

Sorry for the lack of posting.  Going over a month and a half without posting anything is ridiculous, especially in a blog that was meant to have new posts every night.  Over the winter I was trying to at least do twice a month (how mighty are the fallen ambitions).   And then ... nothing for 7 weeks.  What gives?

Well, what gave was a dead computer ( Read more... )