Posts Tagged ‘baby’

What Does It Take to Be an Expert?

I have no letters after my name. Okay, officially I have a B.A., which in today’s climate stands less for Bachelor of Arts as it does for Buy Additional — credits, tuition, college time — leading to more letters (like M.A. or PhD)  if you actually want to get a job in the field. I [...]

Baby, It’s Cold Outside! (That’s Why I’m Inside)

Okay, so maybe this doesn’t mean much to you people in Scottsdale, Arizona, or Hilo, Hawaii, but Baby it’s cold outside! The Norwegian Artist and I regularly walk three miles a day, in one mile increments, but lately I’ve been joining the dog near the wood stove and giving the Norwegian That Look when he [...]

The Golden Compass in My Head Is Made of Plastic

Like any married couple, the Norwegian Artist and I have divvied the duties through the years – you know, cooking, laundry, mucking out the goat pen. I’ll happily fold socks. On long car trips, our duties have been set in stone since he put the rock on my finger: He Drives; I Navigate. This latter [...]

Baby Boomer Grandparents — Like everything else, we do it our way

There’s dried fettuccini on the bathroom floor, which is a variation from the usual wet towels, but this time it’s not the teenagers’ fault. Toddler has been rummaging around the cupboards, plunging fat sticky hands in the oatmeal, tossing raisins at the dog, and now playing pick up sticks with the pasta. I think I [...]

She Was a Good Doggy

You’d think that a brand new baby and two squabbling older children would be enough to keep a person busy, but for some reason, after the Son and Heir was born, I had this driving desire to get a dog. A puppy, of course, to match the baby theme — an 11-month old Golden Lab [...]

Reading the Last Page of the Book Is Not a Crime

Now I am not naïve enough to think that bad things don’t happen. Bad things happen to all of us, every single day, and for that reason I look for the total opposite in my reading pleasure.

That’s why it’s called reading “pleasure.”

Sewing, Knitting, Quilting — Real Women and Real Men Do These Things

At the Norwegian Artist’s receptions and opening nights, I appear in something that exists all its own on the planet — no twin at Wal-Mart or Nordstrom’s — what I’m wearing is as unique, unusual, and imperfect as I am.

Is Trivia Really Trivial?

And before it be pointed out that there are far more serious issues to contemplate than invisible demarcation lines on plastic cups, allow me to observe that these lines — or lack of thereof — are a symptom of a larger issue:

Being forthright and honest. Or not.

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