I phoned home before I left work. It was the shortened day of the week for the kids, and they would have been home for a while. I phoned to make sure all was alright, and whether I needed to pick anything up on my way home. My oldest daughter answered, saying everything was fine,Continue reading “On Remembering my Child is not just a Mini Copy of Me”
Monthly Archives: February 2011
On Discovering I’m a Stereotype of the Jane Austen Variety
I guess we all are in probably more ways than one. Which, of course means that if you are more than one stereotype, you are probably not stereotypical as two conflicting stereotype characteristics would cancel each other out. Right? But I ramble. So sue me. It’s early and I haven’t had coffee yet. In theContinue reading “On Discovering I’m a Stereotype of the Jane Austen Variety”
Random Things
I came across this little nugget from The Happiness Project. Every Wednesday the author provides a tip or list. Last week’s happened to be Tolstoy’s 10 Rules for life: In any event, for happiness-project purposes, Tolstoy is particularly fascinating — both because he wrote so extensively about happiness and because he made and broke soContinue reading “Random Things”
January in Books
Wuthering Heights by Charlotte Brontë This was our token classic read for our January Book club meeting. I had read it as a teenager and in my angry, unsentimental, opinionated teenage way, hated it with a passion (I felt the same way about Romeo and Juliet- just didn’t feel their actions were believable or justifiedContinue reading “January in Books”
Lina Branter 