My favorite part of moving is going through all of the boxes I have stashed in closets and under desks. I have distinct packrat tendencies, and I’ve been facing difficult (but interesting) decisions in the last week or two, as I un-pack and re-pack these storage boxes. A stack of cards that my [...]
Posted in personal | 2 Comments »>Home again, and exhausted. I’m spending today trying to catch up on things, but it’s difficult putting the pieces back together after unexpectedly losing an entire week. Where it used to be mid-June, it’s now late in the month, almost July. I still haven’t put together the reading lists for my fall [...]
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Posted in personal | No Comments »>My dad gave the eulogy at his mother’s funeral yesterday. He said that what he wanted to do was tell people a little bit about her life, because she never said anything about it herself. And it’s true, she didn’t. Dad knew things because he talked to her all the time; ever [...]
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Posted in personal | 4 Comments »>My grandmother died this morning. When I was a little kid, she showed me things from her yoga class, how to sit half-lotus, and she taught me to play cards, poker and gin and six kinds of solitaire. She crocheted a blanket for me once, all bright-colored borders and little flowers, and it’s [...]
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