December 2011
December 30 2011 →
1. J is still recovering very nicely from surgery. Excellent. M, on the other hand, is sick with some sort of flu-esque something, which I am hoping I do not get. Poor guy napped for two and a half…
2011 Year in Music →
What a very weird year in music for me.
I spent a lot of this year writing or editing. And, when writing or editing, I can’t listen to music that has words. Not even opera, with words in languages…
Things I Like: To Have and Have Not →
To be clear, we’re talking about the movie, here. I’ve never read Hemingway’s novel of the same name. No, I mean the Howard Hawks film To Have and Have Not, starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren…
Christmas Eve →
I’m posting now, because later today will be full of the church Christmas pageant, and then we will open presents and have a fire in the fireplace and listen to carols. Our family traditions.
This…
December 23 2011 →
1. The people building the house next door do show up early, my goodness. Of course, we get up pretty early, so it’s not really a problem. I just have to remember to be wearing an appropriate amount…
December 22 2011 →
1. N and I took the kids to see The Muppets yesterday evening. There were hijinks (the first theater was not actually showing the film, we almost drove to the wrong second theater) en route, but on…
Winter Solstice 2011 →
As always, my thoughts on solstice turn to John M. Ford’s poem, Winter Solstice, Camelot Station. I’ve blogged about it last year and in 2009.
I was talking on Twitter a few days ago with…
Things I Like: 5ive Girls →
5ive Girls is a movie about, well, here, I’ll quote the Netflix Watch Instantly page:
Ron Perlman (Hellboy) stars as the resident Catholic priest in this horror flick from director Warren P….
Girl Legos →
A lot of people were talking yesterday about Lego, and the announcement of a new line of Lego for girls. Most of the conversation I saw from people who were outraged.
The thing is …
Have you been…
Things I Like: Miles and Ekaterine →
There is an author. Lois McMaster Bujold. And she has written, among other things, a series of multiply-award-winning books about the Vorkosigan family. The books are science fiction.
On the…
December 14th 2011 →
Yesterday was rather lovely.
Things I accomplished:
slush reading for Apex
school with the kids
tai chi practice
weight training at the Y
pre-writing some blog entries
three loads of dishes …
2011 Moments in Fandom →
For your reference and mine, here is last year’s Moments in Fandom post.
Your main fandom of the year?
I’ve felt very out of step with fandoms this year. That’s not an indictment, or anything…
Tuba Christmas! →
I took today off of work so that I might see K and N play at Tuba Christmas. It was a delight.
Our Saint Paul Tuba Christmas is held in a lovely church in downtown Satin Paul. J scored some…
Joining Unity →
J and I spent the morning at Unity Unitarian Universalist Church. Joining the church. We are now members.
We’ve been going to Unity for three years, more or less. By “we” I mean “J and the kids.”…
It’s not about you, yet another in a series →
When do people learn to own their responses to things? And when do we all learn to not put others into lose-lose situations?
I ask because there’s a things my kids both do, in slightly different…
December 8th 2011 →
1. We went to the Minnesota History Center yesterday morning, for school. We all agreed that we need to go back in a few weeks and spend more time there at the new exhibits.
We went because the…
December 7th, day of infamy →
Today marks the anniversary of the WWII attack on Pearl Harbor. My paternal grandfather served there, as it happens. He was an orderly, a stretcher-carrier. As far as anyone can tell, he spent the…
Things I Like: Alfred Hitchcock’s Marnie →
The movie Marnie was not considered one of Alfred Hitchcock’s best. Moreover, it’s highly problematic to a modern eye both from a feminist point of view and a psychological perspective.
That’s…
December 5th 2011 →
1. I started listening to the Naked Archaeology podcast. I like it, it’s got some cool features and new information. What I like most, however, is that the host, Diana O’Carroll, shares a vocal…
December 4th 2011 →
1. It finally snowed in a substantive, Minnesotan fashion. Sticky, wet, fluffy snow that ices over on warm cars while children shriek with delight at the snowball-related possibilities. I drove home…
December 2, 2011 →
1. The lot next to us has been empty for some time. The new owners announced their intention to demolish the home and build new, but they hadn’t done anything for a while. The demolition is…
