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“Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.” – Hamilton Wright Mabi Now that I have an opportunity to write, I’m realizing that I really missed my daily postings last week! It reminds me of when I moved away from home to go to the […] “We all love animals. Why do we call some ‘pets’ and others ‘dinner?’” k.d. lang I’m a pescatarian, which is basically a vegetarian who eats seafood. Ever since I was a child, I was bothered by the sight of meat on my plate, but I couldn’t articulate my feelings. I […] “Continuity gives us roots; change gives us branches, letting us stretch and grow and reach new heights.” ~Pauline R. Kezer I love writing. I always look forward to the times when I can pull out my laptop and reflect upon my life as a mother. Writing this blog, specifically, is […] Catch my debut article with OUR BIG EARTH this morning @ www.ourbigearth.com “Everyone eats and drinks, yet few appreciate food.” Confucious Big Daddy-O was away and the girls and I had to run an errand in the late afternoon. It took longer than I had anticipated, so at 5:20 pm I decided to pick-up Chinese food for dinner instead of cooking at home. […] “A three-year-old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.” Bill Vaughn When Fig is too quiet, it usually means trouble. I was in Pip’s bedroom, assisting with her fifteenth costume-change […] “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.” Albert Einstein After boiling some pasta for the girls at lunch time, I was telling Pip that the pot was very hot and she shouldn’t go near it. For some idiotic reason unbeknownst to me, […] “In the final analysis it is not what you do for your children but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings.” — Ann Landers Pip wanted to play with her cousin last week and I explained that she was having a sleep-over at Grandma […] “In every artist there is a touch of audacity without which no talent is conceivable.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (I apologize to all of my non-local readers for this hyper-local post.) I recently heard from a woman named Lianne Raymond, who invited me to a documentary-screening called, […] “Language… has created the word “loneliness” to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word “solitude” to express the glory of being alone.” Paul Johannes Tillich, The Eternal Now Pip and I were snuggling together in bed one morning while Big-Daddy-O and Fig were getting a […] |
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