When the girls were little, we went to the park several times a week. (That was back when it was OK for kids to play in the dirt and before there were hand sanitizer dispensers on every corner and .) It has been a long time since I have spent an afternoon playing at the park with one of the girls. “I want to go play. Am I too old to go swing and slide? “Nope. I just look like I’m too old to…
I had a fun walk on my way home today. My school day was short so I was able to head home at lunchtime. It was warm, but not too warm, and there was a gentle but definitely present breeze that caused the newly fallen leaves to skip along like happily dancing children. The animated leaves made me want to join in the dance; I exercised a little self control and just walked. A few minutes into my walk that childlike spirit…
Today was the first work day after the time change. The fall time change from daylight savings time to standard time should be a good thing in that we got an extra hour of sleep Saturday night. Don’t get me wrong, I treasure that additional sixty minutes of sleep; however there was something a little “not right” about this morning. When the alarm clock went off at the normal 6am, it was still dark, very dark, outside. I expected it…
I am happy to share here some pictures of the work of Dale Chihuly that is currently on display at the Dallas Arboretum. The fact is that matter how good the pictures, they can’t capture the whole beauty and grandness of seeing these magnificent pieces of glass in person. The sheer amount of glass alone is amazing. Add to that the incredible detail in every piece and I realize that both words and pictures come up short in their abilities…
It was a dark and stormy night . . . and . . . Oh wait, that is the wrong scary story! Let’s try this again. It was the middle of a sunny but crisp October afternoon, just ten days before our next presidential election. I was at home making chili and butternut squash bread to take to a Halloween party later that evening. Weber had a few errands to run. While he was out, he decided that he would…
Wow! It is the 24th of October. Where has the month gone? I know that I have been busy but I didn’t realize that it has been so long since I last posted. One of the things that I have been doing over the last month is taking an online photography course. It has been a great experience – low pressure and I have learned a lot. I will share more on the class in a later post. For now,…
Last week we got new mailboxes at school. Our departmental secretary was responsible for placing our names on all the new boxes. Typing and sticking all of those name tags must have given her an opportunity to think about names, something that i suspect we all do every now and then. To me, names are a rather strange phenomenon. From the time most little girls realize that they can one day have a baby, they have a list of…
There are days and there are weeks when you have to stop and ask yourself what has gone awry in your world. This has been one of those weeks. First of all our “Big Mac” computer sent a love note last week that said, ‘S.M.A.R.T failure imminent.” To my way of thinking, failure never seems smart, but what the hell do I know? As it urned out, the hard drive was having issues and did ultimately fail. Why couldn’t it…
This is September 6th which means that last Friday was August 31st, the last day of the month, the day that I have been posting my monthly Five Fabulous Finds. I know that I missed that August deadline; i knew it then. I tried to ignore this pesky little fact. For almost a week I was successful at this. Then reality struck back. I received a text message from my baby girl saying, “You missed your August Five Fabulous Finds.”…
NOTE: Every now and then someone else wants to share their thoughts here. Before posting such things they are given fair warning that they are subjecting themselves to being guilty by association. All appropriate waivers were signed by this most recent guest blogger before this was posted. Over the weekend of July 13-15 I had the incredible experience of being at the NOAH (National Organization for Albinism and Hypopigmentation) Conference in St. Louis. I am not going into details here…