My "Radio Silence" over the last week is (I'm happy to say) the result of having been quite thoroughly engrossed in the activities of a first-week-of-summer-holidays with the kids... I started to write a few times, but never got as far as hitting "Publish," so here it is, all at once...Sat, June 2: Summer Holidays, … Continue reading Summer, Synchronicity, Sewage, Stones, & Super-Powers
Category: Family
Fifty Shades of Greybeard
This morning the sound of my hubby's electric beard-trimmer was interrupted by a yelp, followed by an exclamation of disgust. "Stupid razor!" Envisioning the guard coming loose and a notch of bare chin in the middle of his goatee, I ventured a question into the ensuing silence with some trepidation. "Honey? What happened?" Another moment … Continue reading Fifty Shades of Greybeard
Practicing Craft
I admit it. I have joined the ranks of Pinterest addicts. I'm not considering that a bad thing, however, given the folders full of great ideas I'm accumulating--combined with the fact that (ohmygosh) I'm actually following up on those ideas! Most of the Pinterest jokes (which you can find as pinnable items on Pinterest itself) … Continue reading Practicing Craft
The Controversy of Kid-Calendars
The other day a blogging-friend (Judy, over at Connecting Dots...to God) posed a question which is plaguing a whole generation of parents. The dilemma? Kid-calendars! Many kids today have such busy schedules that a person might be forgiven for mistaking a glimpse of their calendars for schedules of heads of state. Even parents who remember … Continue reading The Controversy of Kid-Calendars
hoMAge
Mother's Day cards just don't cover it. There's not a one on the market that's sufficient to express my thoughts about the awesome Lady who made me. She's fully that (a Lady, that is) when she has a mind to be, having grown up in days when her Girl Scout uniform included white gloves and a girdle... … Continue reading hoMAge
Lucky 13 for One Mommy
The last time Mother's Day was on the thirteenth (my lucky number!) was the year 2001--my first Mother's Day as a Mommy. It was also the day we baptized my son Christian, wearing the same christening-gown I'd worn twenty-six years earlier. My parents have shared it with many family friends in the intervening years, and … Continue reading Lucky 13 for One Mommy
A Pilgrimage of Perspective
Tricia Mitchell just posted a lovely blog about the castle in Heidelberg, Germany--accompanied by some of her own photos and memories of this castle over the years, and posing the question of whether her readers had memories to share. I wrote to her that although it's been almost three decades since I've been there (and although I … Continue reading A Pilgrimage of Perspective
Kana's Chronicles 