Friday, May 9, 2008

Ring the bells that still can ring.
Forget your perfect offering.
There is a crack in everything.
That's how the light gets in.
~Leonard Cohen

Thursday, May 1, 2008

A Thursday Meme

I've been working hard and I'm too lazy to do a Thursday 13! Frank said that Arun had this cool meme on his blog, and here it is. Thanks, guys!


I live in a brick house at the edge of the woods on a river (you thought it would be blue, didn't you?) in Athens, Georgia…

The last time I had a huge belly laugh with my child(ren) was when...well, I don't remember the last ones, but some stand out. On Sean's first trip to Disneyland, we closed the Park at about 1a.m., and we bought a handful of balloons on our way out. We got to the hotel room and we showed Sean (who was 7 at the time) the 'helium voice' trick. We took turns talking like Minnie and Mickey and laughed so hard we thought the hotel folk would ask us to leave.
And a few years back I surprised my Sarah J by showing up in San Diego for Mother's Day. When we saw each other we grinned and hugged and cried, which, as all girls know, is the same as a belly laugh.

“My mother would often tell me...

My mother: 'What are you doing inside? It's nice out.'
Me: 'But mom, this is southern California.'
My mother: 'You can come inside when the streetlights come on.'

“To be the sort of parent I aspire to being, I find myself becoming more puzzled, because my kids left home years ago!

“If I had a two week fully paid holiday with absolutely no responsibilities, and no kids I would fly to Palau, learn to SCUBA and spend the rest of the time in the water.

“A book that profoundly impacted on my life is West with the Night.

“I secretly would like to be a beach bum.

“At my funeral I want people to wear color and play music and dance and drink and eat. I wouldn't mind helping them practice before my funeral, either!