Conversation at our table over dinner, Tuesday, March 24, 2009: Mia: I want some letters*! Mommy: You have to eat some chicken first. Mia: I want some letters! Mommy: You can have some letters as soon as you eat some of your chicken. Mia: I want some letters! Mommy: Okay, eat ONE bite of chicken … More Trouble
I never in my life thought it would be such a difficult thing to sit down at my computer and write something to post on this blog. Never. I’m not sure how long I’ve historically gone without posting in the four years I’ve been writing here–I could look, but I don’t really care–but I’m pretty … More Not so much a new day as a small attempt at the avoidance of perpetual darkness
I hate to sound like a broken record, but it would seem I am right back where I was back in the fall when I couldn’t put words on a page to save my life. My head is congested, and not just from this killer sinus infection that wasted no time taking up residence in … More Empty
I’ve decided to add a new item to this list every time I cross off another item, because the little stack of post-its hanging around my desk need a more permanent home. The drugs I REALLY need (as opposed to the ones my spam email claims I need) Clean-ness envy The Mebane House That unfortunate … More Twenty-five and counting
Mexico awaits.
I’ve spent the last hour reading end-of-2008 reflections on a few of my favorite blogs, and I would love to tell you that these brilliant minds inspired a reflection of my own, but they did not. I’m not sure if it’s the fact that I am at work on New Year’s Eve for the first … More New year, delayed
There is a classroom two floors above the office where I am now sitting that used to be an office suite. When I was an undergraduate English/Education major I worked in that office suite for G, a professor who is now a good friend and colleague of mine. I’m kind of glad that office isn’t there any … More My name is hd, and I’m a single drafter
“What could you write about? List 25 persons, places, or things you would like to write about some day. Then, choose one and WRITE!!!! Save the others for another day.” I have been drafting the following list for over a week. It was supposed to be my post LAST TUESDAY. I would love to tell … More Twenty-five
I have three drafts saved. Not one of them is anywhere near completion. It is Thursday, and according to my “writing plan” I should have already posted twice this week. But at 4:24, with minutes left at this desk sans child to care for, this is all I’ve got: nothing. Not a damn thing. Tomorrow … More Slam!
Those of you who’ve been around a while will remember my BFF, Catherine Newman? For years she wrote a parenting blog, Dalai Mama, which I discovered through my addiction to [the now defunct, let us all have a moment of silence] Wondertime magazine, and then she shifted her focus to a food blog, Dalai Mama Dishes*. When I initially … More Not even for you, BFF
one small corner of the universe 