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• Family, electricity fast lessons

  Nine Lessons from an Electricity Fast

  07.19.10 | Permalink | 6 Comments

  For 40 days we limited our use of electricity. We made exceptions for food preparation and clothes washing. We were 100% successful only on no dishwasher, TV, and computer. I hung my laundry to dry every day but one, when I ran four batches through the dryer after recovering from bronchitis. The thing about drying [...]

• just stuff

  Tell me there’s a record for that

  05.13.10 | Permalink | 9 Comments

  Last night set a record for number of times getting up to pee. Where did all that liquid come from? I almost expected my eyeballs to be limp and slack in their sockets by morning. I’ve also started having numb hands at night. Tara had pain with her numb hands (if I remember rightly) and [...]

• an earth day offering

  Winter of the mind

  04.22.10 | Permalink | 11 Comments

  I don’t suffer from depression. At least, I am 99% sure that I do not, but this pregnancy has been hard. And it’s tempting to just wait it out (it will be over in four months!), without complaining (so much) on here about how I feel. Nobody likes a whiner, after all, and it seems [...]

• Family

  Surrender

  03.25.10 | Permalink | 5 Comments

  We were having lunch with Chrysanthemum yesterday, after our walk, because they just got toys off KSL for their backyard. And because I like her, of course. Especially her food that appears magically on the table before me as I play with her chubby-handed baby. Dimples on the knuckles of a baby are maybe the [...]

• food, money, recipes

  What’s for dinner

  03.21.10 | Permalink | 8 Comments

  I’ve finally gotten in the habit of shopping once a week around a meal plan. And now, of course, I can’t imagine how I managed not to go crazy before, running to the store almost every day for just one or two things that always turned into fifty dollars worth of crackers and “good deals” [...]

• school

  Shouldn’t every grade be like that?

  03.11.10 | Permalink | 15 Comments

  Before our walk this morning, Chrysanthemum and I were talking about school. I think I mentioned something about how Susan is so ready for kindergarten (she’ll be six in October) and I hope she won’t be bored since she’ll go in knowing how to read (which was not the case for Sally). Chrysanthemum told me [...]

• women

  The deep pink hat society

  02.23.10 | Permalink | 7 Comments

  A week ago, I was walking to Chrysanthemum’s house for our morning constitutional, and I waved to another friend driving by in her pristine black minivan. She is the kind of lady (Barbie) who I would normally not bother to make friends with because she is too-perfect looking (I am a reverse-appearance snob), but I [...]