Make New Friends, But Keep the Old-Alison Murphy 05/01/08 ( Read more... )

Our trip to Nashville to see oliviao, jorend and family has been cancelled yet again due to snow. We were on the verge of cancelling due to illness, hoping to be well and still go- but now, the weather has stepped in ( Read more... )

A week or two ago, Abinadi was sitting on the bed in my room and he grabbed one of my long flowing skirts and put it over his head. He and Peter like to do this and pretend to be monsters, but instead of being a monster, he pulled it all the way down so that it was completely over his head and around his neck, kind of like a cape. Then he said:

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Two nights ago I dreamed about calling a few dances at a big contra weekend. I woke up yesterday and wrote part of Screen Door Slam. Today I woke up wanting to finish it, and ended up going in a slightly different direction- Come in and Shut the Door. Then I went back and fixed another dance I wrote in December of last year, that hadn't worked ( Read more... )

( Happy St Patrick's Day! and random bits: )

Not sure if I've written much on this yet. I keep coming back to the driving an automatic vs. driving a manual analogy. Calling is definitely like driving a manual, while dancing for me is like driving an automatic ( Read more... )

Yet more things to blog on when I have the time:

My 32nd birthday- (yes I made it to 4 bytes)

More about my birth and more questions for my mom

Calling 1/2 the dance (5 dances in the second set) at contra for the first time

Peter's rash

Arthur's farewell

our Red Zinger punch recipe and an open letter to Celestial Seasonings

( Abinadi and the baby )

Attended a Natural Beginnings meeting tonight. We gabbed a bit about birth in Memphis, history of the group, personal histories, ate hardboiled eggs and watched Psalm and Zoya: The Unassisted Homebirth of Our Twins. Pretty low key. One of the two moms attending for the first time is a Bradley instructor, both moms are pregnant and in their first ( Read more... )

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I woke up at 3:30 am and got up and had a bowl of granola and played with some contra dance toys and made some dance cards with existing dances off the net. I'm learning to call now, that's my latest thing. I'm wanting to write some dances and I decided to try learning calling first to get a better feel for dance structure ( Read more... )