Friday, August 20, 2021
Thursday, August 19, 2021
mini-vacation
A quick trip to Pittsburgh...
my anxious face is hilarious.
Here's a better one of the kids at the lookout after we rode the Monongahela Incline.
#LaterPost
Wednesday, August 18, 2021
contrapuntal
I enjoyed this reminder about rest today.
Then I got a slew of reports, reimbursement forms, RSVPs, surveys, student advising and scheduling, etc. turned in, so I can take some guilt-free time off this weekend.
That's the plan, anyway.
Fall Term (and a mini-vacation) approach.
Tuesday, August 17, 2021
american euphoric
I got a good picture of S and J with all the grandkids for the family holiday card. I wish I had gotten the childhood portrait of Big A just behind At's shoulder... but Scout's butt wouldn't fit.
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Obviously, I titled this post as a riff on Wood's American Gothic, but my capability for normalcy and jokes about American-ness is dimmed by the horrific news from Afghanistan and diminished in the emotionally exhausting aftermath of having just finished Ayad Akhtar's Homeland Elegies.
Monday, August 16, 2021
the present
Sunday, August 15, 2021
still life with Claritin
Saturday, August 14, 2021
here we grow...
Antioch School nursery mates just nine years ago... on the cusp of various high schools now. Nu and the other kids loved their ambles across Art on the Lawn and Glen Helen. Us mamas sprawled out on the lawn with cold drinks sharing how we had felt "lifted up" by each other for years. And... RK remembers me every time she cuts watermelon into wedges 🤗.
never a dull moment
I had looked forward to today--on the family calendar as a college orientation day for Nu. But when we got to orientation, kids and families...
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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...