Katie didn’t come with us to this one – she had rehearsal for the show she’s stage managing. (She, like her brother who now works for NBA-TV, is finding that being off-stage or off-camera has its own satisfactions.) But the little boys did, and their company reinforced the other trouble with carting young ones to [...]
Archive for April, 2010
The next estate sale
Posted in Uncategorized on April 28, 2010 | 5 Comments »
“My eyes! My eyes!”
Posted in Uncategorized on April 28, 2010 | 18 Comments »
As a child, I suffered terrible allergies. One of my most vivid memories is of the fall of either 4th or 5th grade (I remember because of the school in which I was enduring this – the Deerfield school in Lawrence, Kansas, which was newly constructed and featured the very new-fangled and very stupid open [...]
Welcome Rain
Posted in Uncategorized on April 24, 2010 | 7 Comments »
“Pray for me…
Posted in Uncategorized on April 19, 2010 | 6 Comments »
… that I may not flee for fear of the wolves…” From Pope Benedict XVI’s homily at the Mass for his Inauguration as Pope. He was, as you already know, elected five years ago today. After the meal Jesus said to Simon Peter, ‘Simon son of John, do you love me more than these others [...]
Books
Posted in Uncategorized on April 15, 2010 | Comments Off
Reminder: The bookstore still exists. (You can see it in a photo below!) The Power of the Cross is out of print, as the graphic on the cover on the bookstore page indicates, but I still have the listing up there because I am working on bringing it back into print myself. Fulton Sheen book [...]
And Now We Craft
Posted in Uncategorized on April 14, 2010 | 6 Comments »
A few months ago, when we were still living in the apartment, I was washing dishes or something one night and for some reason fixated on a space on the wall near the window. I was seized with a quite strange desire – drive, really – to paint that space. Any color or all colors. [...]
Free Range
Posted in Uncategorized on April 14, 2010 | 13 Comments »
I’m an introvert, a non-joiner. So while I’ve encouraged and tried to support all my children to be whoever they might be (and I think I have succeeded because they are all so wildly, weirdly different), I can’t deny that I don’t exactly encourage…activities. But after Mike died, I knew Joseph needed something. He could [...]
Searching
Posted in Uncategorized on April 13, 2010 | 3 Comments »
All bloggers love to talk about the weird searches that bring people to their sites. It’s very entertaining. And scary sometimes. I don’t have Sitemeter on this blog, so I don’t have the detailed keyword info provided by that and other counters, but WordPress does offer your top ten searches of every day. I’ve commented [...]
Sur La Table
Posted in Uncategorized on April 12, 2010 | 7 Comments »
Not estate sale, but Craig’s List. Solid, very heavy wood. Drawers work great. $50. I bought it from a fellow who was moving to Hawaii. Why, aside from the obvious reasons, was he moving to Hawaii? Well, he was born there, first of all. But secondly, he has come up with a product – a [...]
Her First Estate Sale
Posted in Uncategorized on April 11, 2010 | 10 Comments »
We dropped by an estate sale between here and there today. I told Katie as we were walking up that she might find it a strange experience – to see a bunch of strangers pawing through the evidence of another person’s earthly existence. She did find it so. Strange. And disconcerting. (For they did paw [...]
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