backsliding

I had decided before the bean was born that I was going to institute a ‘no dogs on the couch’ rule to just cut down on my housecleaning. I was diligent for months but apparently old habits die hard:

out & about

Today at the dog park the river was really low so I watched 2 Great Blue Herons hanging out ten feet or so in the mud off the bank (typically they are closer to the bank so either bail because of the dogs or are missed). They were about 20 feet from each other [...]

not my brightest moment

Even though I am totally loving it I was pretty nervous about the wood stove. I guess having the Bean has just upped the anty of my natural tendency to worry in general about whatever could possibly go wrong. What finally made the decision for me (the handyman lived in Montana for years [...]

trees to know and love

Yesterday was really nice and mellow. The handyman cooked everything and my folks came over and we hung out in front of our new wood stove. I really do not enjoy having to cook big meals and get really uptight so it was really nice to just chill and only have clean up [...]

slacker tag

My friend Kate tagged me to write 8 things about myself. Since it is 2 days before Thanksgiving and I have yet to do my grocery shopping and I have a stack of 40+ research papers (half on the Human Genome Project and half on the Evolution of the Flu Virus) and 30 lab [...]

why i love pbs

So last night we were watching Bill Moyers (yes it was a rocking Friday night for us) and he had a greenie on talking about how to stop receiving unwanted catalogs. I am so excited. I get a plethora each month and I have no idea why because if the companies knew [...]

someday this will be me

My mom and I share a love of books on tape. While I use the term to mean any audio reading of a book, my mom literally means audio books on cassette tape. As we do not share a lot of common interests I have really enjoyed passing library recordings of British mysteries [...]

rain

It’s raining.  Intellectually I should be happy about this as the Southeast is in one serious drought.  Our local news stations have even been running stories on conserving water in the home and I live in about the most unfriendly conservation town possible (I am the only person I have ever seen at the grocery store [...]

pumpkins

inspiration

As it is probably obvious, I have been suffering from a touch of what I refer to as general malaise. Today Terry Gross interviewed Katha Pollitt and it was just what I needed.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=16112223
She summed up so eloquently many of the things I am feeling regarding becoming a mother: why I waited until I was [...]