I hate war. This site keeps a running tally of Casualties and Fatalities in Iraq — not just U.S. and other foreigners, also civilians and Iraqi forces. I don’t have a solution for this mess — we all saw it coming, but protests were useless. And what little I have and do will never heal […]
Category: musings
Just for Pretty
I try to plan my garden and yard with a mind toward utility of some kind. Though we don’t grow even 1/10th of the food we need, I wanted most of the plants to be something that would show my kids what REAL FOOD looks like. I want them to know what is involved in […]
G’s Favorite Author and A Lovely Evening
I am SO bummed out. We just missed seeing Rick Riordan on his visit to Seattle. G has been reading the Percy Jackson books to me, and finished the second book last night on our drive to Seattle (next paragraph). So this morning I hop online to see if the next book is out — […]
Miracles
In the aftermath of the tornado that took out nearly an entire Kansas town, a few survivors were found buried in the rubble. Babies are born, children learn to read, people manage to find true love despite many distractions. And in my garden today, the first yellow iris began to bloom under the lilacs, which […]
An interesting parenting question
Here is the origin and inspiration of this thread… Rich Dad, Poor Dad, Smart Dad, Stupid Dad What makes for effective parents? Is it the opportunities they give their children? The information or values they impart? The sense of being loved? The security of place or status? I suspect we all know people (maybe even […]
Happy Earth Day
May your gardens be green,May your harvests be golden,May your heart fill with love, and your larder with food,May your life be fulfilled with all that is good. Today dawned sunny and bright, after what was obviously a very cold night — there was a light frost on the ground when I let the critters […]
AA Milne: poem for today
Halfway down the stairs Halfway down the stairsIs a stair where I sit:There isn’t any other stair quite like it.I’m not at the bottom,I’m not at the top:So this is the stair where I always stop. Halfway up the stairsIsn’t up, and isn’t down.It isn’t in the nursery, it isn’t in the town:And all sorts […]
Sometimes there are no answers
Today a horrific shooting at a university in Virginia… dozens dead and wounded. Pre-teen children have been in the news recently for doing sex acts in front of their classmates when the teacher was out of the room. People setting fires to homes in the wee hours of the mornings, children dying in their beds. […]
School Book Fair Season
This post originated in an email I wrote a friend. Thought others would enjoy it, too, so I have expanded on it a little. For the last few years, I have been volunteering with the book fairs the local school holds every conference week. That’s one in the autumn and one in the spring. I […]
Interview Meme
This meme is going strong, I have traced it back to I think six other blogs before me. The path backward goes: Journey Woman, Motherreader, A Wrung Sponge, repressed librarian, profgrrrrl and hipsterwannbe (all of these several are blogspot folks I believe), who apparently got the idea from picodulce who blogs at LiveJournal who got […]