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Betwixt and Between
I have been thinking about liminal spaces a lot lately. Part of it is having spent a winter of Sundays hanging out with poets whose creativity blooms in those transformational places, and part of it is acknowledging that the pandemic has not only been a long Lent, but...
Something Funny
Here is an email I received about the baby from my sister Kathleen in N.Y.: Hi Granny, Can you e-mail me Sarah's mailing address and phone# Do you think she'd prefer clothing or silver for Caroline?? xo k and my response? Diamonds. Also, just so you know, I...
Something Funnier
So Kathleen emails me back and says "Empress Caroline? In this economy I should be able to find a tiara lying around." Actually, Caroline looks just fine without any bling. She doesn't need silver or diamonds or for that matter any clothes. Sarah has been given so...
Celebrating Ellen and Reba
We are having a party to celebrate Ellen (30 years) and Reba's (20 years) combined 50 years of service to the library today from 4-6. Please join me ( and lots of other folks) for refreshments and gratitude for their presence in our lives (and our children's and their...
Child-to-Child Haitian Relief
Jacob Weerasinghe, 5, raised over 250 dollars Saturday for Haitian earthquake victims at Lutak Lumber selling hot cocoa. "His Uncle Roger bought two cups for forty dollars and someone else gave a hundred dollars" dad Nishan said. He told me that he didn't think...
Red Sky at Night is a Delight
Lucy said that all you have to do to get a baby to sleep is put them in the hat rack on your plane and fly to 5,000 feet. She said the same thing works for ornery drunks, although they sometimes have to go higher. "The blood oxygen level drops" with altitude, she...
Crunches and Lunges
Light snow covered the car this morning as Eliza left for Morning Muscles class at 5:45. The snow banks in the driveway are like walls, taller than the car roof, and the road was white. The lights of the airport twinkled up the river. We didn't see another vehicle...