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Tag: Life
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Water is wet, the Sky is Blue, I’m Busy…
I should probably have tried to make that rhyme, but instead I’ll leave you with some photos. I have to run the girls to school, and then make my boy his breakfast and pack his lunch and… and later today I have a quiz over the last 40+ trees we identified recently. Her quizzes are…
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In the Briars
I made a comment on facebook the other day about how much fieldwork I have in classes this semester, and a week ago tomorrow I took a long ramble in the woods armed with camera and neck-knife, collecting specimens… and it was homework! One of my friends commented, laughing “don’t throw me into that br’er…
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The Butcher, the Baker, the Candlestick Maker
As I was standing in the kitchen early this morning making Sunday Breakfast, I was thinking about something. It started with bacon, as I was laying out odd pieces as neatly as I could to bake them. We’re having monkey bread and baked bacon, and eggs for those who want them (the First Reader). One…
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When Chaos is the New Normal
The human mind likes routine. We complain about being bored, but when allowed, we tend to do things in the same way. For some people, routines are more important than others. For children, they are very important in setting up behaviors and habits that will last them a lifetime. For good or for bad. Sometimes,…
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Carry On
This is a short post, and then I’ll suggest that you check out the folks in my blogroll (links at the side) if you haven’t already done so. Today is busy-busy-busy, and tomorrow we are traveling again. Don’t expect regular blogging to resume until Monday, although I will try. Life has wandered from weird to…
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The Waist of the Hourglass
Life is usually spent buried in the sands. We rarely know which end is up, only the inevitable flow of time inexorably downward through the waist of the hourglass and into the fallen pile of the past. Memories, ideas, plans, dreams, and goals all wind up down there, in the accumulation of a life. But…
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Rain and Pancakes
For the first time in a month, it’s not going to be over 80 degrees today. That may not seem like much to my friends and family in more southern climes (I’m looking at you, Texas), but it’s been hot and miserably hot here. We have had a lovely summer vacation that is winding to…
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Tsundoku Tsunami
Later today – maybe tomorrow – I will be dealing with my tsundoku. It’s a Japanese word for the pile of unread books we all have. We all do, right? It’s not just me? We’re revamping the house this week. It’s needed doing for a while, but you know how it is. You move in,…
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Air Conditioning
I’ve lived all my life without any significant amount of time spent living with air conditioning. Now, granted, I’m a northern girl, always have been. But hot does happen, even in Alaska, although it’s a much shorter duration than the Lower 48. And New England can get nasty muggy come July and August. So moving…
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Curmudgeon’s Corner: Breakup Counseling
Written by Sanford Begley Breakup counseling, should it be a thing? A young couple I know is going through a breakup. Not quite a divorce because they never married and were only together for a few years, but a hell of a lot more than the typical date for a few weeks or months and…
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Transitions
After the last week of intense pressure, preceded by a couple of weeks that were nearly at that level, I find myself in transition. It’s not just the loss of pressure – I do have many, many other pressing projects that I must now list, prioritize, and begin to implement. It’s also the loss of…