Marking time

Day 2 with Shannon away has ended. She left yesterday morning for outdoor school. Screaming fifth graders on a bus an hour north along the coast and so far, she seems to be having a great time. It is harder on Sue that it is me-but I confess to missing my daughter a bit. More [...]

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Mother’s Day is not a day I ever thought I’d be celebrating all that much beyond my own mom and some friends. I never thought I’d be trying to outdo myself every year on a creative gift for Sue, or smiling as our daughter presented gifts to her mom she made herself. No-until about 12 [...]

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I cannot tell a lie. I have been sick for over a week. The headache I posted about led to a bad cold (yes, I’ve shared with other members of the family. I’m a giver…) and I have lost my voice nearly entirely. It sounds like I’m talking through sand when I talk at all. [...]

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Wednesday of last week began a spiral that continued for days. Indeed, it’s not quite over yet. I got a little dehydrated and wound up ill–that morphed into a migraine headache that lasted all night and then all day Thursday. It didn’t really respond to the OTC Rite Aid migraine preparation and then it kind [...]

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I am laid up with the beginnings of a migraine. I can feel it starting–so I’ve taken my pills and I’m drinking water to rehydrate which I need to do because….well, short version, because I’m stupid. Meanwhile, Shannon and I are sitting here watching horse shows because she’s obsessed with horses. She’s created a little [...]

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I am going to make a quick descent into politics for the sake of posterity. Bill Kristol wrote this article that appeared yesterday in the Weekly Standard online. I thought this before Kristol wrote it. Yes, I know what the polls say–but the Rasmussen poll, the most accurate of voting trends to date, has Romney [...]

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It has been a deadline rich weekend and I actually move into the week with a little more room to breathe than I had on the weekend with the exception of it being Star testing week–the inevitable high stakes testing regime that maddens us all is upon us. I have embraced it and will use [...]

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Teaching is always hard this time of year. I’ll not for a moment deny it–it appears the kids are done–some two months early–and they don’t want to work anymore. Knowing the trouble teachers have gotten into talking about their charges on blogs, I’ll refrain from making any pointed comments. Suffice to say–they’re done. Some were [...]

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Friday was fine as it always is. But having the Picards, friends of ours, over for dinner meant over-much wine. And I paid a price for that I’d rather not have paid today. All day was a kind of cobwebbed and hazy fog of general lowliness. Up later than usual, more breakfast than usual to [...]

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Oh gentles, it is not for lack of anything to say. Humblest of apologies, mea culpa. Easter was grand and delightful at the Perez family’s house. Dear friends we’ve known for years. We go to the same church and they’re one of the reasons I have hope for raising a child. Randy and Janel are [...]

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