I click “Write” on my WordPress dashboard, waiting for the spinning wheel that is my brain to slow knowing that it won’t and that focusing on a single stream of steady thought on any one idea will seem impossible. No, be impossible. In 20 minute’s time, I’ve gone from thinking about working out a recipe…
Category: Plans & Schemes
Alive, Exercising, and So Not on Main Street
Well, hello. Remember me? I’m the one who used to write here quite regularly. I’m never quite sure how it gets to be Tuesday after it seems that Thursday was just yesterday, but that’s how it goes. I think I’ve figured out that if I had a way to hang on to my thoughts while…
Learning from Writers
I’ve been reading portions of William Zinsser’s Inventing the Truth, a collection of pieces by talented writers on The Art and Craft of Memoir. It lays open in a place that I’ll see it throughout the day so that I can noncommittally pick it up and think about what the writers have to say about…
Martha for a Few Hours, Almost
The visit from the “floor” man was interesting yesterday. I found out he is a general contractor, and the floor sample and measurement plan quickly became secondary to the larger discussion around what to do about bathrooms, and closets, and fireplaces, and windows, and stair railings…. The list seems endless. We’ve gone through a couple…
Time for a Remodel
I’m truly in a quandry. As I look back over the past year, so much has changed that no one would notice but me. I’m speaking of my blog world, and not the real world, which is so chaotic right now. I’d like to say that I believe I can impact change on the latter,…
Sex Ed and Politics
Yesterday morning after I returned from dropping the MoH off at work, I had the dubious pleasure of listening to NPR report on local attitudes about sex education for 5th graders. Obviously, there’s been quite a bit of talk on the subject since McCain was forced by the GOP bigdogs to chose Sarah Palin as…