In a twist of ‘the universe is unfair’, Savannah’s beautiful, vibrant, 27 year old teacher has cancer. It makes me blindingly angry when I think about it too deeply. I can only believe that she will get better and live a long life because living well is the best revenge. Yes, I’m personifying a disease. […]
Monthly Archives: October 2013
We watched E.T. with S for the first time Sunday evening. She giggled through the first part of the movie and then broke down into heaving sobs when she thought ET had died. I don’t like telling her how movies are going to end but at one point she was so inconsolable I had to […]
Savannah is finishing up an Author Study on Tomie DePaula (www.tomie.com) and I love this picture of Strega Nona (one of his characters) she drew.
So I can’t believe I have friends that are turning 40. We are all still acting like we are 25 and don’t have mortgages and kids. A very special friend turned 40 this past month. He is the person I have known the longest and still keep in touch with. We have known each other […]
We were invited to go with some of the second grade families on a camping trip and it was a wonderful experience. My family was not a camping family so I have come around to the idea late in life. It turns out, I really like it! To be fair, we had some amenities (running […]