I thought I had posted about this before, but looking back I seem to be incorrect. Apparently I’ve been distracted ( Read more... )

Two years ago Randy and I visited the Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia ( Read more... )

Last night the full moon was bright and beautiful, with the wind-blown clouds moving quickly across the sky. It reminded me so much of the last full moon I saw, equally gorgeous in a different way. The night of the eclipse. The night Butch died ( Read more... )

I just finished listening to Barack Obama’s speech, “A More Perfect Union.” I’m not usually one for the multimedia world, but I’m so glad I heard this. If you haven’t listened to it yet, I think it’s worth the time. Obama said things that need to be said, need to be heard ( Read more... )

So far so good. They did a CT scan on Randy's father, and nothing showed up. The subjective symptoms (tingling, slurring of speech) may be easing. So the doctors are planning to keep him in the hospital overnight, but if nothing changes this may simply count as his second TIA.

We learned this morning that Randy’s father is having a stroke. It may be relatively minor - he was able to call us himself, after getting himself to the ER. But at the time he hadn’t seen a doctor yet, and we haven’t heard an update since then ( Read more... )

Any afternoon that starts with, "First, finely chop seven cups of onions" ... you hope the day is going to get better from there ...

This just came across my town's email list. I thought it was funny enough to share ( Read more... )

I haven’t been doing much LJ posting in recent months. I read almost every day, and occasionally comment, but I’ve gotten out of the habit of posting. My life has felt too full and complex to distill into a post, and often the important things are too personal, for myself and others, to post on the web, even friends-locked. But I want to share ( Read more... )

Does anyone know of a good place to pick up pine cones? I'm going to be decorating First Parish's sanctuary for a pair of solstice services. There are some white pines on the grounds that need to be pruned, and I've been holding off on them for months for this purpose. But it would be nice to intersperse some pine cones, and we don't have a lot ( Read more... )