We have been in St. Louis for the NOAH (National Organization for Albinism and Hypo-pigmentation) conference. Though I am fifty years old and NOAH has been around since 1982, I was a first-timer at this conference. I wasn’t sure what to expect, but I knew that I wanted to go. Weber was a really good sport and agreed to go with me. The primary purpose of the NOAH conference is to provide information and support for families and individuals whose…
I mentioned back at that end of May that I have been reading Milan Kundera’s Te Unbearable Likeness of Being. I have not finished the book yet. This is not because the book is not good or that I am not enjoying it but because I have way too many things that I want to be doing and not enough time to do them all. I will finish it before I have to renew it at the library again. The point…
Today was a typical Saturday. After sleeping a little later than we do during the school week, we spent the day doing a few chores and running errands. At least today’s errands were the fun kind – picking up our CSA bin, shopping for a dress for an upcoming wedding, and a trip to Target. After all of that, we decided to pack a picnic supper and head to a local park. The weather was perfect for such an outing….
I am officially on break now! What a great feeling. Though the spring semester was awesome in many ways, it had some challenges and by the time it was over, I was exhausted both physically and mentally. I have three weeks to rest before summer school begins. Some of you have asked about the writing deadline that I mentioned in my last post. I was writing a short magazine article about what it is like to be a visually impaired…
Saturday is usually our chore and errand day but today we decided to make it a “date day.” The cleaning, laundry and grocery shopping will get done eventually. Today was a day to enjoy the beautiful weather and each other. We rode the DART train which gave Weber a break from the stress of driving in Dallas. Imagine my surprise when I ran into one of my students on the train! We headed downtown to the Asian…
Saturday is usually the day when we don’t have to set an alarm. For that reason alone, Saturday is my favorite day of the week. Today we had to set an alarm but this Saturday is still my favorite day of the week. We had to be up reasonably early to run an important errand. Last Saturday, when we did not set an alarm and were not up and out of the house early and were still in our PJ’s…
It seems that these days I need a list just to function in a nominally productive manner. To be honest, maybe “a list” is an understatement; I need many lists to successfully get through any given day – grocery list, chore list, reading list, to-do list for school, home maintenance list, errand list – and the lists go on . . . Without my lists, something gets forgotten. It’s OK if that overlooked item is something like dusting the door…
So here it is, New Year’s Day, the beginning of 2012. Funny, but nothing really seems new to me. (Possibly because I haven’t yet written the date on anything and had to change that last digit from “1” to “2” by tracing over it eight or ten times.) Another reason that I don’t have a feeling of newness today is because my life is structured by the academic rather than the calendar year: so my “new year” begins at the…
How is it that two dogs, one neutered and one spayed, and two cats, also one neutered and one spayed, can spawn litters of offspring all over the house? And how can they do so at the same rate as rabbits? Oh, wait. those aren’t whole puppies and kittens; it is just huge balls of fur shed by the aforementioned spayed and neutered dogs and cats that have collected in every corner. What a relief. No more mouths to feed….
For some reason, I seem to be exhausted by the end of the school week. It’s not like I am over-extending myself. In fact, there are several things that I want and need to do that just haven’t gotten done because I run out of steam by the time I have accomplished all the things that have to be done. Despite being tired and wishing for a day that didn’t start before 10 am, we decided to go to the…