wow, dropping max off at his summer art class was surprisingly emotional. as we were getting out of the car, his energy shifted from excitement to nervousness. he said to me, “i get frightened when around new people, sometimes, mommy.”
“ah, i understand.”
“that is why i hid in my bedroom when that girl was over at [...]
Archive for June, 2009
first day of art camp. oh the feelings involved with such a simple act of living.
Posted in Max on June 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
that title quote, a few words about it…
Posted in Marriage on June 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
a brief explanation of the quote:
If divorce has increased by one thousand percent, don’t blame the women’s movement. Blame the obsolete sex roles on which our marriages were based. – Betty Friedan
i love this quote and believe it to be true, though if i were to have been the one to write it into a [...]
“If divorce has increased by one thousand percent, don’t blame the women’s movement. Blame the obsolete sex roles on which our marriages were based.”
Posted in Marriage on June 27, 2009 | 2 Comments »
we are on day seven of hal’s twelve day work stretch. and oh my, i am beginning to feel it. i think the thick of it will hit us on monday when we realize we still have FOUR MORE DAYS to go. hal picked up a one day a week part-time librarian position for a [...]
“To be aware of a single shortcoming in oneself is more useful than to be aware of a thousand in someone else.”
Posted in Mothering, Transition, Words, tagged Mothering on June 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
oh to go. to go to that place where emotion becomes word, where dark becomes clear and where pain sits far, but decidedly near. you know that place. that place that can’t really be explained with any real written language, only expressed in ways that others have done before. it is chaotically quite even amongst [...]
not much more than meets the eye.
Posted in BellaGrace, Respite on June 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
hal and i dropped max and bella off at my in-laws last night and treated ourselves to dinner and a movie. dinner was at chipotle and the movie was transformers. i remember watching the transformers cartoon as a child and being totally fascinated with the robots. even to the point of fantasizing that i was [...]
“please, can we just keep it out of my kid’s face? it stinks.”
Posted in Uncategorized on June 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
thank you for the kind comments and e-mails regarding the last post. letters to my past is what that was all about. do you know what i mean? when you think of stuff that you’ve been through that you are miles out of and over, so you can see the whole time period as a [...]
Dear Life o’ Mine and where others intertwine,
Posted in Words on June 10, 2009 | 2 Comments »
we all have gifts. gifts that make us unique while connecting us to others. sometimes, we never see our gifts because the fog between us and the mirror is too thick. sometimes, we find our gift after years of misusing and misunderstanding. and sometimes the gift becomes clear and we feel like, okay, now what [...]
