So proud of At!
Tuesday, October 20, 2020
Man!
Tuesday, October 06, 2020
King, Chavez, Parks... and Penrose
Today, I received logo-ed masks from the KCP program (King-Chavez-Parks, baby!) and will wear them everywhere with pride.
Friday, October 02, 2020
Radio News
The WH Covid superspreader events and all their painful consequences were always so preventable--that part really bothers me. Thousands of people could have been alive today... Maybe we could even have been headed back to the old normal...
Also on the radio--I heard Allie Brosh sob and I wonder if her new book is maybe too sad for me RN, but there's a sweet chapter up at her old blog.
Tuesday, September 29, 2020
"Get Well Soon!"
see it here; and hear about it here.
And while on reading--this article on ambiguous loss (from earlier in the year, but I found it just last week) really helped me.
Thursday, September 24, 2020
Tuesday, September 08, 2020
Thursday, August 27, 2020
Got that look
I'm fine, I'm fine. I'm fine.
Feeling like everything from 2 through 12 is normal. Right?
(Full teaching day; have to talk really loudly through my mask; feel bad about having to remind students about masks sometimes; but I think we're beginning to get to know each other, yay; dropped off At's kettle bells and got a hug; went home to dinner already on the table thanks to Big A; Nu seemed to have managed the first full day of online school okay; kiddie cuddles from Nu and puppies; a binge of Indian Matchmaking with Big A; and so to bed.)
Tuesday, August 11, 2020
Anthropo(s)cene
Actually, we've had a bit too much nature in the house. Last night we found a bat in our bedroom and then later--(another? the same?) one in the library. We couldn't find them this morning, though. I even doused rooms in mint essential oils and played high-frequency recordings, to no avail. Then as I woke from a nap this evening, I noticed a bat roosting about five feet away from me between two beams. We opened the front door and encouraged it to leave, and it did after endlessly stupid loops all around the living room and kitchen.
Friday, August 07, 2020
Lenses
Friday, July 31, 2020
A Different Season
Wednesday, July 15, 2020
Anti-Capitalist Walk-Talk
It was At's turn to walk with me today, and we ended up in hammocks after 20 or so mins, because it had gotten quite hot again. Our resident socialist was discussing the cultural theorist Mark Fisher, whose chapter titles are whimsical and full of possibility: "What if you held a protest and everyone came?" "It is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism." But I guess I didn't know the jarring reason why Fisher's writing stopped.
And also, I'll confess--my darling boy's Jesus of the Naxalites mien charms and alarms me in almost equal measure and for different reasons.
Monday, July 13, 2020
Be Loved
Wednesday, July 08, 2020
Thursday, July 02, 2020
Monday, June 15, 2020
Pride
Our entryway Ganesha has been dressed for Pride month, and heartily approves of the SCOTUS ruling that LGBTQ+ people are protected against workplace discrimination under civil rights law. I think I really needed to hear some good news--I cried.
(This seasonal tradition started accidentally when our neighbor TB placed his hat on Ganesha's head when he came to dinner this winter [remember having people over for dinner in the before times?!]. Ganesha looked so debonair we immediately started dressing him up in seasonal garb. So far: Santa hat, New-Year party tiara, Valentine's Day Scarf, sequined St. Pat's-day hat, Easter bunny-ears headband, Memorial Day beads, and even a Corona mask.)
Sunday, June 14, 2020
Respite
MSU Horticultural Gardens |
Some quality rambles with L and Big A today, fixing the world's problems and some of our own...
It's getting really noisy and people-y outside and I was glad to be home when it was over.
Buried myself in books all day so I didn't have to be on FB or Twitter--
Yes, I'll have to catch up and educate myself... but pretty certain it'll all still be there tomorrow.
Wednesday, June 10, 2020
A Long Way from Home/Normal/Ideal
Big A is in front of the tree; Nu and At are in the foreground... for the kids, their first time out of the house since March! |
And I wish I could say it felt good after, but I came home and fell apart: I had a thunderstorm-induced headache, cried because an article had to be changed from MLA to Chicago style, and couldn't even rouse myself to make dinner... At made grilled cheese for himself and Nu, Nu fed Scout and Huck, Big A got some delivery, I ate a tub of colorful chips... everyone survived.
I feel like I did a A LOT of railing, crying, and whining (mostly to a very kind and listening Big A), and the kids seemed to play a lot of video games and sang a lot of "It's a long, long way to Ba Sing Se"--ostensibly to cheer me up.
Tuesday, June 09, 2020
Sketch-y
Commissioned a drawing of Big A and the kids for Father's Day (it's looming!). Love how in this sketch everyone looks racially ambiguous. Right? Or maybe I'm just being fanciful. Not to suggest my multiracial babies automatically embody equality or possibility, but they're lovely beings. Mostly intentionally.
Spent most of yesterday and today in FYS planning workshops--twice the usual work to do since we have to plan for several contingencies and just two months to do it all...
And now I have to go write a kind note to the colleague who said that they had been "g*pped" and hope they take it the right way and didn't already use that kind of language around students.
Friday, June 05, 2020
Thursday, June 04, 2020
Round and Round
The day began with what we thought looked like a sky smile (you can see it better if you kinda squint a little like we used to have to in the olden times with magic eye pictures).
Lots of work through the day including the hard work of discussing Robin DiAngelo's White Fragility with colleagues at my PWI.
I ended the day by making really, really pretty bowls of poke for dinner. It was my 'Boss Day' so the kids helped extra, and shelled all the edamame, grated the veggies, and shredded the nori. All this despite being tired (Nu) and stressed (At--from his thesis). So much love.
oh, snap(shot)
Pic: I am well-loved tonight. Max and Huck are "hugging" me. Earlier this day, I tried to take a cherry blossom family pic outsid...
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Friends and old neighbors shutting it down in honor of John Crawford. _
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I have the feeling that I’m going to succumb to the season and put out a list of resolutions soon. Just wanted to establish this heads up th...
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At had us pose for this pic up at Aunt R's place on Lake Huron so he could put it up in his dorm. "Don't tur...