::turning little monkeys into men::
Posted in Introductions, about, cute, love on Jun 15th, 2009
Some shots from a school trip to Europe when my husband was obviously extremely, extremely young. And cute. And AWOL from the cast of 21 Jump Street. See more babyDaddy here.
Right before we were married (like a week before) my in-laws called and informed my husband that if we married, they would never accept me as a daughter-in-law. They wouldn’t be coming to the wedding. I wasn’t Korean and had a child from a previous relationship. I’m sure they had a few other reasons but […]
“there was a boy, a very strange enchanted boy”
When I was little, my mother often sang me to sleep with songs my grandmother used to sing to her. Growing up, I never realized that they had origins and context outside of my experience with them. In the innocently self-centered way of children, I assumed […]
Posted in about, love, nostalgia, ten years ago on Sep 18th, 2008
Down in the basement today, looking through a giant box of sentimental crap I keep - rocks, pressed flowers, pictures, a small piece of the set of my high school production of Bye, Bye Birdie, reams of papers. Letters, cards, notes.
I found a card, girlish peach with a pair of pointe shoes on the cover, […]
Posted in about, foodie, good picture, kidlets, love, nostalgia, stuff on Sep 3rd, 2008
We’re lucky to have very generous friends like Greg and Amie. They invited us to spend Labor Day weekend at their cabin in Manistee.
It was wonderful and totally triggered my ‘living in a hippie commune fantasy”.
Except instead of living off the grid and being smelly, together we’d raise a Boden-clad gaggle of meta-quoting moppets on […]
Posted in Interesting, about, illness, parenting, wtf? on Jul 24th, 2008
During each of my pregnancies I mentioned having extremely painful, arthritis-type pain in my hip area/leg joints to my doctor or mid-wife. Each of them responded with a thoughtful head tilt and claimed to have never heard this complaint from anyone else before. Sh’yah right! As with so many pregnancy related discomforts, I got a […]
Posted in about, books, hilarity, nostalgia on May 16th, 2008
From this morning’s chat log:
CM: also, have you heard about the maxi dress?
Kate: I have
CM: i’m berry excited about the maxi dress
Kate: yeah, they would look v. nice on you!
CM: i’m excited about the idea of not having to deflect comments about my pasty white legs
Kate: I’ve forsworn longs skirts. Too much time dressed like […]
Posted in about, kidlets, mitten, parenting on Apr 14th, 2008
I’ve passed many things on to my kids. My sense of theatre, my dimpled chin, toe-walking, a love of books and many other attitudes and values, calculated or assumed. I do try, as much as possible, to examine what I’m transmitting, both trivial and important. I’ve thought long and hard about the obvious things - […]
During these interminable winter days (we got another 6 inches of snow last night), I bundle myself up in memories of our year near the ocean. We lived at the Copa Pacific apartment complex on Ocean Avenue just off the Pacific Coast Highway and about a mile south of Redondo Beach. We rented a three […]
Here’s a travelogue from 2004 when Mitten, my husband, the dogs and I made the long trip from Michigan to California.
To follow: the “and Back Again” part.
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6/26/04 - I’m excited about the trip across country. Need to buy a nice digital camera. The laptop will be traveling with us, as will the phone that can […]
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