My mood these days remains uneven, as I deal with the anxiety brought on by the election. So many people at risk now, both from foreign and domestic policy. I feel like the small-minded cruelties, the “strict authoritarian father” form of rule that we fled when we left Alabama has now swept across the whole country….
Thanksgiving Short Week Meal Planning
The Prof and I are busy busy busy ’round the house this weekend. Hanging a few pix, painting a table, cleaning out the boys’ toys, switching the summer and winter clothes. It is at last below 70 degrees down here (not much below, though!), so we flung the doors and windows open and I actually…
Monday Morning Meal/Takeover the World Planning
Oh well, we had as good a weekend as can be expected after a white supremacist anti-Semite was chosen to be Trump’s chief strategist, and it was revealed that Trump didn’t know he had to staff the West Wing himself. Obama is ‘spending more time with him’ than a typical outgoing President does, given his…
Hot Air
I’m not sleeping. It’s taken me several years to find my rage. As Madeleine Albright famously said – “It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.” The crucible of a law firm has sharpened me, and I am more…
Halloween 2016
We had a really fun Halloween. As promised, my parents came to stay with us the day before. All Saints Day is traditionally a huge holiday here, meaning lots of people go to church the day after Halloween – and the kids therefore didn’t have school. Their father and I still had to work, and though…