I was going to do a survey of Valentine’s days with my Valentine, when I retrieved from the dusty recesses of my brain the memory that I had already done that. (It was on a shared blog I wrote with some college friends, called the Wonder Women, and I miss doing it! I migrated it…
Category: Holidays and Celebrations
It Still Resonates
From MLKJ’s last speech in Memphis: “You know, whenever Pharaoh wanted to prolong the period of slavery in Egypt, he had a favorite, favorite formula for doing it. What was that? He kept the slaves fighting among themselves. But whenever the slaves get together, something happens in Pharaoh’s court, and he cannot hold the slaves…
Resolutions
I am one of those people that likes to make resolutions. I do my best work when I have some sort of external driver, even if I create the external driver my own self. Plus, it’s tradition. So, in the spirit of the yearly tradition of trying to be better, here are my 2012 resolutions:…
Christmas
We’re rewinding a bit to mid-December, when Jack and I made Christmas cookies. I’d like it recorded here, so I can get my Awesome Holiday Mom points. See, we have that book “The Sweet Smell of Christmas,” in which Mother Bear makes gingerbread boys to hang on the tree, and after reading it Jack decided…
Aught Eleven
1. What did you do in 2011 that you’d never done before? Wrote a Motion to Sever. (It won!) 2. Did you keep your new year’s resolutions, and will you make more for next year? I made eight, for heaven’s sake. And I kept most of them: 1. No giving birth, no getting pregnant in…