Someone looked at the house in New Orleans today. The realtor said she is very interested. She is going to have her boyfriend come and see it. We can't say how much we want that house sold. It would be such a relief. I'm afraid to get my hopes up, but then again, they are up already. When Ethan heard about it he said, "It's 70% sold already." I ( Read more... )

This is probably not interesting to anyone but us. I just want to see some progress on "paper" so I'm writing a laundry list of things I'd like to have done by next Friday.

( List as promised )

Shoocu-Schoocu posted an about not wanting to be a mommy at the expense of being a person. Her husband says things will just work out ( Read more... )

I'd like to say that today was relaxing, but that would be a lie. I'd like to say that I feel a deep sense of accomplishment, but again, not true. I'd settle for saying that I got through the day without sounding like very loud nails on a freshly washed chalkboard, but even that's not flying ( Read more... )

I was talking with Ethan and Ryan last night as they laid in bed and we got on the subject of pirates. (A very common subject in our house.) "Were pirates mean?" Ryan asked ( Read more... )

I avoided the net yesterday except for NOLA. I didn't want to read accounts or thoughts or accusations by people who weren't there. A year ago yesterday, we were in Montgomery, Alabama. We didn't watch tv. We didn't listen to the radio. Honestly, I don't remember a lot of the day ( Read more... )

We finally made it up to NH for a bit of vacation. Kim's late husband's family has a summer house on a pond and it is usually quiet and peaceful. This weekend her sons had about 20 friends over for a party. That was fun, but I was glad when they left and the cabins were quiet again. Today, however, Ellen and Joel (cousins of Kim's husband) showed ( Read more... )

There's just been enough of today for me. It started out way too early with baths for Ethan and Ryan because they didn't get them yesterday and then we had to run out the door to baseball camp. Ethan is in a very cool home schoolers baseball camp all this week. It's lots of fun, more fun than his little league in his and my opinions. Ryan spent the ( Read more... )

Today has been really long. In fact, this week has been impossibly long. Every time I feel like we're getting a step ahead, 3 more things get addded to the list of things that have to be done immediately. Just this week the list has included.:

( Long annoying list of things )

So, tomorrow is the 20th anniversary of the very first ACT UP action. I'll be there, with Ethan and Ryan in tow. We're going back to Wall Street to have (another) permitted march. The first time we got a permit, there was a lot of discussion about whether or not we ought to get a permit. Why should anyone need a permit to exercise her/his civil ( Read more... )