Last weekend my son and I went to a Maple Sugaring community program in our city, a place which is known as the birthplace of the American Industrial Revolution. You know, old mill buildings, lots of brick, smokestacks, and even some cool old canals. But maple sugaring…? In Lowell?
Well, we do live [...]
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I used to say, “I’m a night person.” And, well, I stayed up far into the night working (sometimes grading papers as late as 2 or 3 a.m.), so I figured that being capable of such feats proved that I was, indeed, a night owl. These days, since I am on sabbatical this year [...]
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Montessori Mama posted ten joys that chase away the February blahs, and she invited others to do the same. (She got the idea from Soule Mama.)
My ten Feb. faves:
1. Snow. I grew up in California and still think snow is utterly and completely miraculous.
2. Reading a good book under warm covers. I love to [...]
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Yes, last night I let my ten-year-old son stay up past ten to watch the total lunar eclipse together. And okay. We consumed vast quantities of hot chocolate and doughnuts from Dunkin Doughnuts. So there.
My husband has been ill with a bad cold the last few days, even had to stay home [...]
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Awesome book!! If you read no other book this year, read this one. Flat out, this is one of the best reads I’ve encountered in a while. Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace One School at a Time, by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin, is a fascinating, [...]
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Love — especially in a marriage — needs time, and if we do not MAKE time for the marriage, we can bet the time will slip away and the marriage will be, at best, lack-luster. I haven’t been exactly a model of making time for my marriage through the years of grad school and pre-tenure [...]
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“other words for grief” … These words arrested my attention as I scanned search terms folks used who found my blog. Other words. I wonder how much of what I am doing on this site is searching for the words.
Then I got curious about the word “grief.” Being an academic, I decided [...]
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“I can handle it — no problem,” I told my husband when he asked if it’d be okay to head off to a conference for three days. I figured it’s easy enough for me to play “single mom” while my husband is away on a business trip. And everything IS fine here. But [...]
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I was sorting through pixs from my trip to Peru today and came across this picture of a little pig:
We were in Huacuy Central that day, installing a vaccine fridge and replacing a broken radio in the medical clinic. It was very foggy up there at 7,000 feet, and I was a bit bummed [...]
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I’ve never expressed political opinions on this blog, and I do not plan to make this space a stumping ground in future. In light of tomorrow’s historic primary voting, however, I have decided to endorse a candidate publically. As a woman, I wish I could endorse Hilary Clinton, but I can’t. I [...]
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