Posted in Learning on Apr 6th, 2007 2 Comments »
I appreciate the comments and emails I have received regarding this post about a stressful situation that is happening offline, and I definitely appreciate your prayers. It has been a difficult couple of months, and most of the writing I have done on the issue has remained on my own hard drive simply because [...]
Posted in Learning on Apr 5th, 2007 No Comments »
I was about to shut off the computer and turn in for the night when I decided to read ‘just one more’ blog post from my feed reader. It turned out to be this reflection on Jesus’ last supper before his crucifixion, which reportedly happened on Thursday night. Tonight.
I wonder when exactly did Jesus [...]
Posted in Learning on Apr 4th, 2007 6 Comments »
[Update: I originally posted this the evening of 4/3/07 but felt unsettled about the wording of certain sections, even after several re-writes. So I pulled the post late that night. After a night of sleep, some more prayer, and discussion with Bryan, I still stand by it. This morning I revised it [...]
Posted in Blog Stuff, Books, Learning on Mar 31st, 2007 3 Comments »
Last night Bryan and I went to see Annie Lamott read from her new book, Grace (Eventually), which she nearly titled Forgivishness.
I was first introduced to Annie’s writing when I became pregnant with Ruthie and my sister-in-law gave me her copy of Operating Instructions. I think I read that book in one [...]
Posted in Learning, Rage Against The Pile, Ruthie on Mar 16th, 2007 5 Comments »
There are days when Ruthie teaches me many things. Like the days when she pretends to mother her purple teddy bear - feeding it, wrapping it in a blanket to sleep… and disciplining it. I often find her setting the bear in a nearby chair, cheerfully explaining to it the reasons for a time [...]
Posted in Everyday, Learning on Mar 14th, 2007 2 Comments »
Uck. What an ugly day yesterday was. I did pull my head out of my naval, though, and walked the kids down the street for some hot chocolate at our local coffee shop. On the way home we stopped at a grove of trees across the street from our house where they played chase [...]
Posted in Learning, Ruthie, Thomas, Travel, Video on Feb 5th, 2007 9 Comments »
Our trip to the San Jose area couldn’t have come at a better time. I’ve spent the last couple months reorganizing and reprioritizing my focus as a mother and household manager, trying to correct the part of my brain that sometimes finds it easier to focus on the latter and see the former as [...]
Posted in Getting Things Done, Learning on Jan 18th, 2007 1 Comment »
(For Part I, go here.)
When I was a kid I had an active imagination. I was as good as an only child since my brother graduated high school and left home when I was seven (which was also, I just realized, the year after my father left), so I created my own companionship in my [...]
Posted in Learning, Ruthie on Jan 7th, 2007 2 Comments »
Posted in Learning on Dec 7th, 2006 4 Comments »
I stayed up late the other night writing about all the ways I was failing as a mother, and as a wife, and as a person; about my wretched, angry heart that is at war with everything; about how easy it is for me to despise.
As I cried and wrote I felt myself spiraling deeper [...]
Posted in Learning, On Writing on Dec 5th, 2006 No Comments »
I lived in New York for two years in the mid ninties, about 45 minutes North of Manhattan on the Hudson River. I lived there alone – as in, I didn’t bring any friends or family with me. I ventured out on my own to a new land. An opportunity opened up [...]
Posted in Blog Stuff, Learning on Nov 22nd, 2006 No Comments »
This week has been a fun Thanksgiving preparation week, both on the hospitality front as well as the project-completion front (my basement looks pretty again!). Bryan and I are hosting seven adults and five children (including our own family) for dinner tomorrow afternoon, followed by an open invitation to hang out with us in [...]
Posted in Learning on Nov 7th, 2006 4 Comments »
Today is election day, and every time this comes around I am faced with my own ridiculous apathy regarding anything political. I just don’t care. But lately I have been trying to make myself care, and not just to be hip, either. If I’m going to enter Recovery and spend an entire [...]
Posted in Learning on Nov 6th, 2006 No Comments »
I don’t often write about things of faith and religion outside of my own personal journey. I am a Believer in Christ, so everything I do and say and believe and struggle with is filtered through this lens – though I try, very intentionally, to keep it as MY lens and not something I [...]
Posted in Getting Things Done, Learning on Sep 13th, 2006 4 Comments »
I haven’t felt much like writing lately. Can you tell? This blog has taken a turn toward online photo journaling and reports of what I did yesterday, more akin to my journaling style of junior high.
Many questions are in my mind, like… do I really have anything to say? Does anybody out [...]