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collage
I've been working on a couple of house collages for, like, a year, I dunno. Mostly they sit around and taunt me with their incompleteness and their taking-up-spaceness and their being the first step into something that I really really want to do but it's harder.
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TV watching
True Blood: Eric ... has the worst posture ever. Which is why I think he should do all his scenes on his back. ;)
Rescue Me: I've started fast-fwding through most of it.
Freaks and Geeks: Yes, I'm ten years behind the times. -
Notes on _Nurtureshock_
p. 122: "More Fun with Sisters and Brothers," Dr. Laurie Kramer. Teaches kids to initiate play with siblings, how to find activities they both like to do together, how to gently decline when they're not interested, how to recognize feelings broadcast by siblings. Conflict prevention ( Read more... ) -
Perspective
Reading Anne Lamott tonight and cracking up over:
"Here are the two best prayers that I know: "Help me, help me, help me," and "Thank you, thank you, thank you." A woman I know says, for her morning prayer, "Whatever," and then for the evening, "Oh, well," but has conceded that these prayers are more palatable for people without children." -
yelling at Terry Gross
I know that yelling at my radio doesn't help anything but... really, Terry Gross? Po Bronson says kids need more sleep? NO SHIT. You want that I should tie them to the bed? -
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If you're feeling out-of-control insane, read a Bai Ling interview. By comparison, you will look so mundane. -
Open Studios
I'm participating in Bedford Center for the Arts Open Studios in November. I thought it was a community-building event, but it ends up that it's an upscale (?) craft fair. I'd appreciate input on a couple of things, because I'm just too spacey to give it thoughtful thought- my head just keeps going around in circles.
1. I need to pick a picture of ( Read more... ) -
cole_b QOTD
In the backseat of the car, on our way to Poppy's, apropos of nothing, cole_b held one of those milk cap rings that cats adore so much under his nose and said, "Do not bother me! *I* have a mustache!" in a very dramatic fashion.
Then he took it away and said, ""Do not bother me! I do *not* have a mustache!" also in a very dramatic fashion. -
Of interest to stargazers?
Alan MacRobert speaking Sunday August 30 at 10 a.m. in the Common Room of First Parish in Bedford ( Read more... )