So I have this crazy idea. I hesitate to write about it here for fear of jinxing it. But then I thought about my little essayist project, and how posting about it here each month has been such good incentive for me. I don’t think I would have kept up with reading these essayists if [...]
We’re back from our Los Angeles trip, only to find the weather even more beautiful up north. A spring heat wave has rolled into California, which made it pretty easy to spend the entire weekend in the garden. I have lots of catching up to do this year, after nearly neglecting the yard last summer, [...]
We’re in Los Angeles, to visit colleges with H. We’re hanging out at the beach. And doing all the touristy stuff. And being silly. It’s kinda fun, visiting places from my college days. Even though that was ages ago, some spots are still the same. Tomorrow, USC’s film school.
Four days later. Happy Easter!
Despite all my Waldorf guilt, there are still some Waldorf-y traditions we keep. For years now, in the week before Easter, the kids and I have made and planted an Easter garden. We take an old pan, and fill it with soil. We add a “tree” cut from the branch of a real tree, a [...]
The latest installment in My Year of Excellent Essayists project. random notes: You may or may not have heard of Sue Hubbell. I chose her because she wrote a wonderful book called A Book of Bees…and How to Keep Them, which I read a couple of years ago when I became curious about beekeeping. Since [...]
Lately, Mr. T has been spending a lot of time with Ed Emberley. I have my own fond memories from the 70’s of checking out armloads of Ed Emberley books from the bookmobile that parked near the tennis courts, in the suburban tract where I lived. I never thought of myself as able to draw, [...]