Something has been happening to me more and more often lately. It’s happening often enough now that I might even say it’s a recurring theme. With increasing occurence, I am having moments when I realize to myself that my parents were right! Oh, the horror! What’s even scarier? My parents predicted [...]
Entries from September 2006
September 25, 2006
monday, monday
It was a pretty quiet weekend around here. Because it rained most of the day on Saturday, we couldn’t go apple picking. Instead we did a bit of low-cost shopping — hooray for second-hand! First we hit the Book Barn in Brunswick (sorry – it’s too early in the week for alliteration). [...]
September 15, 2006
grammie
I meant to write this post yesterday, so let’s all just pretend that it’s still the 14th…
Ethel Sumner Benson Dunnning
If my Grammie Dunning were alive today, she would be celebrating her 103rd birthday. Whoa. That’s really old, especially when I remember how old she seemed when I was a little girl. She [...]
September 12, 2006
11 September 2006: 5 Years Later
I’ve been thinking about this post all day and I still don’t know what to say. What can I possibly say that hasn’t already been said, or couldn’t be more eloquently spoken by someone else? Like many others today, I feel so inadequate. What I DO have is some experience with grief. [...]
September 12, 2006
July 2006
Discovering What You Owe
Mom at the sink, Mom over the washing machine…Mom at the piano… Ordinary moments of an ordinary life. The ordinary now has its true face: miraculous. Growing up under her hand, her gaze, her heart was a miracle, unbelievable luck. I had no idea at the time; we [...]
September 12, 2006
June 2006
Food for Thought: Feminism
A really great quote from an article by Jennifer Roback Morse in National Review Online (I edited for length):
“The legacy of the feminist movement has been to turn the home, which should be the place of cooperation, into a sphere of competition between men and women. And ironically, feminism, which was [...]
September 12, 2006
May 2006
Let’s Go Shopping!!
Great patriot that he is, Mac Johnson has proposed a way to “do something good by doing something fun!” Hm, dinner out sounds good… And I certainly don’t need any convincing to pick up some new shoes… Happy shopping everybody!
01 May 2006
September 12, 2006
April 2006
The Old Stomping Grounds
Most of my friends would tell you that when I left Boston, I wasn’t going to look back. I had missed Maine increasingly over the years, and after almost 12 years, I was pretty much done with Boston. I knew we would miss our friends (and what kind, amazing, loving [...]
September 12, 2006
March 2006
Finally…some news!
It’s been quite a while since I’ve posted, and that’s because — and I’m not exaggerating here — my life has been painfully dull. Seriously, the most exciting part of every day is when I manage to do my 20 minutes on the elliptical trainer, which I’ve been doing pretty consistently since we [...]
September 12, 2006
January 2006
Sears Tears
We knew when we moved here that we needed to be prepared to clear a lot of snow from our driveway, so before the first flake even fell, we bought a really great snowblower (Craftsman, 9 hp, 28″ blade, in case you’re interested). I think Joel has used it three times and it’s [...]
