Thirteen reasons why I love her so:
1. The way she sleeps with her feet sticking out, and a blanket wrapped around her head.
2. Her beautiful hands, busier and busier every day.
3. That she was student of the month in April, but was too preoccupied with something that interested her to hear the announcement over the [...]
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Posted 01 May 2010
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Last night’s family foray to the Joan Jett concert got me thinking about the long line of rock shows this family has witnessed. My first show was The Clash (go ahead, be jealous) at the Tower Theater when I was a teenager. They were just about to, or had, released London Calling and while I [...]
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Posted 17 July 2009
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And so does the Husband and the Girl. Here they are, on their way out the door to the Girl’s first rock concert.
And just what is this first show? Joan Jett and the Blackhearts. Yes, the Girl is most definitely old school. Rest assured there will be a full report at 11.
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Posted 16 July 2009
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Twelve reasons why I love her:
1. Her love of music, and her musical talents, emerging so clearly. She wakes up singing Replacements songs and goes to sleep singing the Runaways. Who could have asked for better taste?
2. Her sense of style. Did anyone say, “elan”? I did.
3. Her kindness and compassion.
4. Her loyalty to her [...]
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Posted 03 May 2009
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is art.
Thus spoke The Girl over the weekend as we put the finishing touches on repainting her room.
To which I replied, “Some things with purpose are also art, like wrist watches.”
Several years ago, The Girl painted her walls in four different colors. She lived with the orange, yellow, teal and blue for a long time, [...]
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Posted 14 April 2009
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My daughter has me utterly enmeshed in How I Met Your Mother. If you haven’t seen the show, or watched the episode entitled, “The Possimpible,” hie yourself over to CBS.com and do a little viewing. It’s silly, engaging, smart and just a bit of fun for your Monday nights.
In “The Possimpible,” the character Barney, played [...]
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Posted 18 February 2009
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Today The Girl came home with the news that she has been cast as Lucy in her sixth grade production of “You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown.” Last week was tryouts, and the role had come down to three girls. This morning she found out the she got it. She’s bouncing with excitement, naturally. And [...]
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Posted 13 October 2008
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For now, the manuscript has left my desktop for that of the editor. In our virtual days, there doesn’t seem to be as much of a “moment” when a book gets sent as there used to be. I did, however, observe a little moment of silence, and respect, after I hit “send.”
This afternoon I have [...]
Interrupting the revision talk (up to p. 152 as of yesterday, thank you very much) to write a bit about Josie, since she’s been absent from the blog for a while, and is in fact not even part of that tag cloud in the sidebar. Impossible!
Three weeks into the school year, Josie is cranking on [...]
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Posted 18 September 2008
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One of mother’s favorite movies when I was a kid was, “Never On Sunday.” In the movie, after all the trials and trepidations the characters face, one of them ends the film with the famous line, “And then they all went to the seashore.” My mother quoted this line often after a hardship or mishap [...]
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Posted 04 August 2008
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