I apologize. I had thought about writing this week about guns and laws and how the reason everyone is so upset is because the reality is that our society has already broken and changed in very significant ways, and we can't get it back and nobody can win. Or else, I was going to write about how "secular" is not "interfaith" and how much I miss ( Read more... )

I've been feeling my age this week, I think. Hard to tell, since I've never been any older, and I can't crawl around inside all the other forty-year-old's brains and see how they are really feeling, but there's a somewhat different quality to my current melancholy. And it is melancholy ( Read more... )

redheaded woodpecker turns my head, and I just have time to show one other person and he's gone forever ( Read more... )

My holiday turned out to be prep-party-recover-prep-party-recover-prep-party-recover for about two weeks solid. By the end of this I was desperate to get back to work, focus on the kids, eat vegetables, etc. I kept reminding myself of how friggin hard I worked last summer, and how I promised myself some serious loafing, but I was seriously ( Read more... )

I'm likely to be getting a new phone soon, as our contract has expired and our phones are both being glitchy. I know how to back up photos, I think my contacts will get transferred at the store. But here's my sticky note, of things to remember/research. If anyone would like to pile on more suggestions in the comments, of what books or ( Read more... )

****Edit: Changed our minds, we're not making the trip. ****I'm coming to NJ with the boys on Friday. We're working out where to stay and need to be close to Somerset and Highland Park. I'll fill up the car with gas and groceries before we cross the state line. We will have rehearsal daily, a couple of doctor appointments, storm ( Read more... )

Back from 12 days in Massachusetts... quick visit to friends followed by seership class, followed by a longer visit with folks and trying to be useful and having lots of solitude, followed by Twilight Covening, followed by another quick visit, this time with eafm and thudthwacker ( Read more... )

I have been working so hard this summer, and I feel like I have deeply failed. We decided to buy the new house and move before getting the old house on the market, and the result was that the movers came and moved our stuff and my house in NJ stopped looking anything like my beautiful cozy home and just looked empty and dirty, and I needed to be ( Read more... )

A half dozen less-than-awesome things ( Read more... )

OK! So I'm here in the house on the mountain. This has been a hella busy summer. I've lost a few pounds and put on muscle not from exercising or dieting but just from actual *work*. Hoping to use this as a springboard. I'm physically more fit at the moment, in some ways, since I have been before becoming a mother ( Read more... )