Language class

Tonight’s the big night.
I managed to get approval from the recreation center to use one of their classrooms, I worked up a good curriculum, and I have two people who say they will come, three if you count the rec center director who wants to sit in.
Not the resounding success I had hoped for, but [...]

Quilting

Sherrieh reminds me of one of the hobbies I love so much and how I’d love to take it further, into the realms of appliqué…
All the quilts I’ve done thus far have been simple cut-and-piece-together quilt tops.

This is the first quilt I ever did, specially for the handsome gentleman in the photo (my eldest son) [...]

The Wary Eater’s Field Guide to Tofu

In today’s health- and weight-conscious society, where the often disparaged tofu waits on the sidelines for the chance to demonstrate its delightful dietary dynamo, an introduction is needed for people who don’t know about the positive aspects of tofu but have heard that it is kryptonite to the taste buds.  I am certain that with [...]

Death and Yardwork

Wow, as I sat down to write about my day, that title came out of nowhere, and immediately made me think of two men in my family who died, years apart, of heart attacks while working in the hot sun in their yards: my Uncle Ray and my grandfather-in-law (he would be my ex-grandfather-in-law now, [...]

Comments on comments

I’ve been wanting to write this post for a long time.  I don’t think the time will ever be right, but I’m tired of having it floating around in my head.
Figuring out how the comment function “should” work in this medium has been awkward at times.  When I first started blogging, I would encounter blogs [...]

Tutoring

I just got my first tutoring client in our new town, and it’s going to be a short gig.  This kid’s too smart to need me for long.  Just needs a little confidence-building and he’ll be off and running.
But just a couple of sessions is enough to remind me of how much I love it.
When [...]

Writing your own legend

My kids and I have been watching “The Grizzly Man Diaries” on Animal Planet.  I absolutely love it.
I’d seen the movie about him a few years ago, but this series gives me the chance to get a continuous drip of it.
First, I love to watch tv when I feel like my kids and I are [...]

Phone-a-phobia

Not many people are aware of one of the biggest hurdles I’ve had to face in this starting-a-business thing, I would venture to say, bigger than the utter scarcity of capital, the lack of self-confidence and initiative, bigger even than the total absence of any business sense.
I’m scared of phones.
I’m convinced that it all started [...]

Jealousy is definitely green

Because it makes me want to puke.
Jealousy feels strong enough to make me weak, big enough to make me small, green enough to make me red with rage.
Jealousy feels like everything I love is speeding away from me, back turned, ears closed to my pathetic cries for attention.  It makes me want to slam the [...]

Identity crisis

“All of me…
Why not take all of me?
Can’t you see?
I’m no good without you.
Take my lips…
I want to lose them!
Take my arms
I’ll never use them!”
I’ve always loved this song.  Best of all when Lily Tomlin sings it in the movie.  I like it as much as when Tony Bennett croons ”I Left My Heart in San Francisco.” [...]