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I had a wonderful day. It helped that we had no big expectations of it. We needed to take my 12 year old to a poetry workshop which was followed directly by an activity another mother was going to drive her to. This meant we needed to drop her off 45 minutes from our home … Read more
I had fun playing with the Halloween lights and the settings on my camera. I love considering these as abstract composition ideas. Even the piles of candy work that way! Enjoy…
My town has one of the largest celebrations of Halloween around. See the Bethel Pumpkin House YouTube videos here (toward the end) to see what the sight in the photographs below looks like at night when you don’t see the scaffolding or the wires and only the glowing faces. The party goes from dusk to … Read more
I met my husband 21 years ago today. Long before that, this date was important in my life because my dad was born 84 years ago today. Today is also my college friend Hallie’s birthday. She was the first Christian Scientist I ever met, and would later become my matron of honor. In an interesting … Read more
Today is my parent’s 61st wedding anniversary. My parents have relied on each other so much, one wonders if either one can survive without the other. They have had a model marriage, and their devotion to one another is an inspiration. They met in Latin class in High School, and when my Dad was drafted … Read more
We’ve been celebrating this all week around the college delivery. We had a combined farewell dinner/15th birthday dinner out before his sister left when she gave him her present of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution: both poster-sized on parchment. While I was driving home from Annapolis, he had some friends to swim at … Read more
The house is scrubbed clean For the big graduation All the books are shelved. A tent in the rain to honor my dear daughter with ceremony. Not done this before Uncharted territory Won’t be here again. She’s continuing ongoing life long learning without stop or start. All requirements self imposed and rigorous are unfolding still. … Read more
We had forty special people to our house today for my oldest daughter’s homeschool graduation ceremony. After homeschooling for ten years without the typical school milestones, this event was something she wanted – to just once have all her multifaceted community together and to express gratitude for all they have meant to her. It indeed … Read more
On Earth Day Often we think of earth’s jaggedly impassable, impressive mountain precipices, or a raging volcano’s seething lava, surging mercilessly down hill, or the intensely glaring heat waves shrouding remote, windswept deserts, or hulking blue ice sheets crashing precipitously into chill Arctic oceans, or the devastating … Read more
We had a wonderful Easter celebration with my husband’s family in Texas. Here are some vignettes of the trimmings. There was an Easter Egg Hunt for 14 kids who searched for plastic eggs filled with chocolate and money (my youngest found the most: $18.30, which was comprised of 11 dollar coins and change!). The youngest … Read more
Our family birthday tradition includes my mother’s recipe of cut out cookies in the appropriate digits…
I woke up to my youngest daughter having made me popovers for breakfast. After that sumptuous beginning of my day, I sat in a quiet living room sipping
A friend of mine also has an early February birthday, so we have fun celebrating together during this birthday season by having a lovely lunch followed by
Who would have thought a few years ago that we would witness having a black president in our lifetime let alone so soon?
We went to the International Debutante Ball at the Waldorf-Astoria NYC this week to honor my niece. Beautiful flowers, dresses and men in white tie and tails…