I went to school and continued my education so that I could be a Professor of English Literature and a fiction writer who depicted the victories and pitfalls of a woman’s self-actualization. This morning walking through the refreshed park and smelling the smell of cut grass reminded me of the opening of one of my novellas, The Good Fortune Harvest. When I realized into my master’s degree that I really disliked teaching and that if…
I was walking through the park this morning marveling at the new foliage that has transformed the canopy into a bright green wonderland. Loca was behaving herself and was at my side. We saw ahead of us Sugar Pie scampering around. A woman passed us with a bright smile on her face and we returned the favor. As we circled around and started on our way back, we passed the same woman again and she…
To add to the list of changes I experienced yesterday: T was able to change her ticket so this summer we are flying together for our family vacation. She had planned to go two weeks ahead to visit Zagreb but has decided not to. Walking up the stairs to my office I noticed the Crepe Myrtles in the back yard all have new green leaves on them. This just happened and possibly was precipitated by…
Really at this very moment I can think of nothing better than my family. We took Tin to get his passport and the woman who was trying to be all official and formal soon dropped her act as she was utterly charmed by Tin. He was after all wearing his Italian fancy pants outfit that T brought him from Europe and he said “Moo” when we (showing off) asked him, “What does a cow say,…
Everyone bristles when change comes – no one likes change they have no control over. I’ve really never met a soul who greeted a change they didn’t invoke with open arms. As a matter of fact, a friend I love dearly said these words to me the other day, “I don’t want one thing to change about my life, everything is perfect.” So that is why on a day like today that has change being…
A friend of mine, Kim Frohsin, a very talented artist in San Francisco, told me one time when she was doing a series at a playground that she laid down on a bench and looked up at the clouds and that she was instantly hurled back into childhood. I vowed to look at a cloud myself one of these days. Yesterday, unable to focus on my growing to do list, I went downstairs and it…
Yesterday was the first real day of summer and a preview of coming attractions, it was 84 degrees and stifling in my office and I couldn’t find any relief because turning the fans up was not an option with an elder in the house and meanwhile I felt myself just getting heavier and heavier. I saw a black cat in the distance on one of my ventures outside and thought, did it cross in front…
The Eastern Europeans are here and I’m always quite amazed at what makes them tick. For instance, give them a soft good towel and they will scowl and go pull out a dog towel from the rag pile and insist on using it. Give them a comfy bed after stripping the goosedown and Italian sheets and getting it EEL ready and they will complain they only want one pillow on the bed. It’s really something…
I was sifting through some lengthy emails and sort of felt like I was about to fall off my stability ball when I happened to glance over at the temperature and saw that it is 84 degrees in my office right now. Duh – no wonder I feel like a bowl of pudding left out overnight.
I like to give Tin his bottle on the porch in the morning but the sun is getting stronger and we face east. He resists efforts for me to shield his eyes but this morning we actually sat out there but turned the rocking chair away from the sun. Now we have a better solution, the sunglasses T found for him in Zagreb. So yeah, it does look cool to be hanging on the porch…