We have the plague, here at Odonata House. Well, not the plague. More like a cold. And not all of us, just me and the kids.
So far.
I came home from work after a half-day, desperate to take cold…
I didn’t anticipate being the parent of an athlete.
I didn’t rule it out, certainly, back when the children were wobbly little sedentary bundles. I could vaguely envision them playing soccer or…
Birthday things are over, my mother’s visit has ended, and it’s back to the regular swing of things around here.
K has circus classes five days a week. Six classes, eight hours a week. As of this…
1. It’s grey and drizzling today — typical for autumn in Minnesota.
2. My mother is visiting this week for M’s birthday, which is lovely.
3. We went to the Mill City Museum yesterday. Every time I…
I’m in love.
I fall into and out of love with songs, with music, so often, y’all, I wouldn’t be offended or surprised to see some of you out there rolling your eyes. Bear with me anyway, for a bit,…
M’s party was great! We had the giant warehouse full of trampolines almost to ourselves. At the nineteen-minute mark the children said they were TIRED, so we told to get back out there and jump some…
I.e., very quickly.
1. M’s birthday party (observed) is today. It’s two hours at a place with 200 trampolines. This is excellent. Even more excellent, I can make it there after work.
2. In a…
As followers of this blog may know, I am co-editor of the forthcoming anthology Chicks Dig Comics, from Mad Norwegian Press. A few things of note have occurred in the last month of this project.
As I stopped at the gas station on my drive in to work this afternoon, the k.d. lang song “Sweet Surrender” was playing over the loudspeaker system. To my surprise, I suddenly found I could taste…
I’ve been reading the Getting Things Done book, about how, well, to get things done. I am amused to find that the majority of the principles described therein are things my partner, J, had already…
