Although it’s January, and should be too early for thoughts to turn to spring, my eyes caught sight of a planter, rather desolate in location (back stairs to an office building, concrete steps, leading out to a grocery-store/Starbucks style alleyway), with a nondescript tree, and, at its base, small green shoots poking out of the […]
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Wintry Thoughts of . . . Tulips
Posted in Family, Flowers, Legacies, Natural World, Seasons, Tulips on January 26, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Home Movies
Posted in Existential, Family, Isolation/Belonging, Reminiscences on January 12, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The other day I was watching some home movies. If I stop my tale here, I’m likely to evoke the typical heart-warming experience: family members gathered around to re-create their shared past. The laughter at seeing old styles of clothes, hairdos, eyeglasses; the deep welcoming of the old/wildly young version of ourselves and our loved […]
Writing Stories Together
Posted in Family, Having Fun, Motherhood, School, Writing on December 7, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Tonight my son’s homework assignment is to write the first draft of a mystery story. It’s to include dialogue, six of this week’s spelling words, and he’s to define character and setting. We’ve been going back and forth at the kitchen table for longer than you’d think it would take to write a page. My […]
Legacies
Posted in Beauty, Emotions/Inner World, Family, Mothers, Sons on October 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I am the embodiment – literally – of those who came before me. I have my maternal grandfather’s face structure and nose, as do my mother and brother. My mother’s features don’t show much of her own mother, yet they clearly shared some of their build: short-waisted and thick around the middle. Waists (defined by […]
A Moment
Posted in Connection, Family, Motherhood on September 17, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I was tired last night – the kind of bone tired I can get from too many days waking before, I hate to admit, 4 am. It was 3:57 am when I woke up yesterday. I had some things on my mind, I guess you could say.