We went to my grandmother’s house for Thanksgiving, over the river and through the woods—we used to sing that song when I was a kid and we were making the trip to her place. It’s the small town my father and two aunts grew up in, birth to high-velocity escape post high school. None of [...]
My aunt, Carroll Lassiter, is a wonderful painter. For the last few years she has been focusing on gorgeous landscapes of rural Eastern North Carolina, the kinds of places that feel like my inner homeland, not chosen, but the land I was born into. She does what is called “Plein Aire” painting, which means “open [...]
Every year our country neighbors do the most amazing, hilarious, shocking Halloween decorations ever, and I swear, every year I think, how can they possible do anything new, they’ve done everything, but they always pull it off, proving that I have a stunning lack of imagination for a fantasy novelist, I mean, for gods sake, [...]
[ETA: For some reason wordpress doesn't want to give me any linebreaks in this post. Is it connected to the run-on life that is the subject of this post? Probably.] Holy cow, we have been so busy. I just fall into the bed at night, vibrating with the busy-ness. It’s all good, friends, parties, food, [...]
I lost Henry this Sunday. We went for our usual walk, but at the big creek (which is just a dried up puddle right now) we ran into BAM Karen the Heron WOW making this amazing and astonishing deep throated noise that sounded a little like a giant tree creaking and grinding as it falls [...]
Time for a walk through the forest, brought to you by the semi-annual downloading of pictures from my camera’s ginormous memory card. These walk photos were taken a couple of weeks ago, a late August summer walk, no goats this time just Sophie and Henry, me and my camera.
I love going back and seeing [...]
So, Saturday evening, Luc, 5, fell and broke his arm. We spent Saturday night in the emergency room, Sunday morning in the operating room, and Sunday afternoon in the recovery room. Now we’re home, Luc is on fancy pain meds and a cartoon marathon (thank you streaming netflix), and I am a zombie.
At the [...]
You know that scene in Daredevil where Ben Affleck gets a “look” at pretty Jennifer Garner by hearing the sound of rain drops falling on her face? I ran across this article about Daniel Kish, blind from birth, who uses echolocation to “see” in a similar way. No shit. He can ride a [...]
We went to a nearby music festival for Easter, something I love to do, all the artists and musicians and bliss ninnies and neo-hippies and happy people having a good time… It was a gorgeous day, bright after much rain, making the festival grounds, a large farm with huge trees, a total mud slick, and [...]
What was that?
Flashing by: a bird, a plane?
There it was again!
Wait, where did it go?
Here it comes it again, watch out—
Oh!
It’s Henry!
“Can I help [...]
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today's yoga practice
- sunday
February 6, 2012 | 10:06 amFull Primary with Sharath’s CD.
- friday
February 3, 2012 | 7:17 pmIntermediate to Tittibasana, Swensized versions of most of it. Felt wonderful. I think I might start doing this more often.
- thursday
February 3, 2012 | 7:15 pmFull Primary.
- wednesday
February 1, 2012 | 11:58 amFull Primary.
- tuesday
February 1, 2012 | 11:57 amSKIP!
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- 2 stories, 1 joke, and a song
- lucille ball moment
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