Meme: Book memories
I’ve been tagged for the Book Memories Meme by Julie of Happy Catholic. Sure, ask me to talk about books. Twist my arm. 1. Do you associate reading particular books with the places you read them or events of the…
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Monthly Archive: April 2008
Motherhood is not for the squeamish
Kiddo#3 is fascinated by the diapers of Kiddo#4. I’m not sure why: he’s not even his mother. If you recall, back in my immediately postpartum hormonal days, I said that if I were tempted, I could easily turn into the…
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Winter: defeated
Witness this photo taken yesterday, the final gasp of a dying season. It’s the pathetic remnant of when driving through Angeltown was akin to driving through a labyrinth: At the same time, Springtime rallied itself to the cause, struggling to…
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Blog tour: a city you’d like to visit (and an angel-moment)
I’m back on the weblog tour, and this week’s question is as follows: Topic/Blog Idea for the week of April 5: Choose a city in a country other than your own, and tell us why you’d like to visit it….
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Kiddo#1 discovers baseball
Someday, we knew it would happen, and I’m not sure whether to blame peer pressure or the baseball novels he’s been reading, but Kiddo#1 got interested in following actual major league baseball. My Patient Husband would rather have a tooth…
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And the point? Missed. Utterly.
Are you looking for the perfect cake to grace your Passover table? Aren’t we all? Well, LA Burdick has what you need in their Passover Cake. Let me assure you, I love LA Burdick chocolate, and yes it’s expensive as…
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comfort food for the mind
I’ve noticed in the past few days that I’m really wanting things that are “gentle.” In part it’s the exhaustion from having Kiddo#4 (and I’m more tired now than I have been after any other Kiddo. It’s upsetting because he’s…
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Annihilation: chapters 13 and 14
Due to that “having a baby” stuff I didn’t post last Sunday when chapter thirteen of “Seven Archangels: Annihilation” went live over at MindFlights.com. (For new readers of this weblog, my novel is being serialized for free, one chapter a…
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Classical music: too many decisions
I mentioned once that two years ago, I discovered that they made music prior to 1960, and some of it didn’t even involve guitars. Classical music has been a learning adventure for me in several respects. For one thing, there…
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You can’t blame hormones for everything
I’ve been a lot more hormonal this pregnancy and postpartum than I recall being before. (Patient Husband, this is your cue NOT to say, “HAH!…I mean, do you really think so, sweetie?”) After the birth, I was definitely flying on…
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