Malaise, n. a vague or unfocused feeling of mental uneasiness,lethargy, or discomfort. If I remember correctly, my younger sister once had a gerbil which she named "Malaise." It would have been somewhere around junior-high time for her, and she acquired the gerbil during a period of, well... malaise. If I remember correctly, our cat dragged that gerbil backward out of the cage by its tail … Continue reading The Death of Malaise
Tag: Language
Shakespeare with a Pre-Teen (& a dab of Kitchen Chemistry)
The warm-up "Green Show" before last night's production of Romeo & Juliet let slip a spoiler about the ending: Romeo & Juliet end up dead. "Oops," the Fool-Squad fool exclaimed. "If there's anyone here who didn't pass ninth grade English, we just ruined the surprise." I had a laugh at that, given that I was … Continue reading Shakespeare with a Pre-Teen (& a dab of Kitchen Chemistry)
Marginalia & Time-Travel
I've been re-reading (actually, it's more like re-re-re-re-re-... well, you get the idea) the Harry Potter series this week, occasionally swapping volumes with one of my kids when our progression through the books overlapped... This is the first time through the books for Elena Grace, who (at age eight) is well acquainted with the film … Continue reading Marginalia & Time-Travel
Summer, Synchronicity, Sewage, Stones, & Super-Powers
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
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
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
Cracking the Winter Chrysalis
I often joke that I'm a plant--I need my sunshine! The shamrock in our front window (inherited from my Irish great-grandma, and a decade older than I am) responds so enthusiastically to sunlight that you can almost see its movement toward the light when we open the curtains. My daughter says she's half-leprechaun, so maybe I'm … Continue reading Cracking the Winter Chrysalis
Kana's Chronicles 