The most delightful thing is happening in the kitchen: one of the progeny is making lunch. Now just how delightful this is depends upon which progeny: College Girl cooks like the tornado that killed the Wicked Witch in the West, and the counters wind up so cluttered with dish detritus that the womans green body [...]
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We’re Not Environmentally Sensitive — We’re Cheap
August 23rd, 2011
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The Norwegian Artist and I have never worried about steering our little raft through the middle of the stream, which is good, since according to our four progeny we are hopelessly on the edge. The other day, however, we discovered that, without our changing any of our odd habits, we have become cool, contemporary, and [...]
Material Possessions Don’t Possess Us
April 27th, 2011
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Tired of Being Youngest and I just returned from a mini-vacation at College Girl’s apartment. For four days, the three of us slept late, wandered around in our jammies, watched movies, played card games, ate cake, noshed on Thai food, ate more cake, and took a daily walk to justify our calorie consumption. And while [...]
Home Office Space — The Final Frontier
March 3rd, 2011
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Really, I think that I am a remarkably easy woman to please, and back to my Stranger in the Afternoon who wanted to knit but didn’t have the space, I am flabbergasted at the barriers people put up in the way of getting things done — and I don’t mean walls that block out front doors.
