Showing posts with label parenting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label parenting. Show all posts
Thursday, November 22, 2007

Neopets Christmas Gallery

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I have been collecting for many years, and if I do say so, I have one of the best Christmas collections in Neopia! I also take advantage of ...
Sunday, October 07, 2007

An Artist Encounters Censorship

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I have been working on improving my photography skills during this "creative sabbatical" year, and have been toying with the idea ...
Sunday, September 30, 2007

Going Against History

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One of the classes I visited at Parents' Night this week was AP American History, taught by family friend Nancy Larkin. She told us that...
Sunday, September 09, 2007

Farewell, Meg Murry

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It is 6am, and I write this with tears streaming down my cheeks as I've learned of the death of the brilliant writer Madelaine L'Eng...
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Sunday, May 13, 2007

Flowers in our Hair

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I was so pleased that Jules, my 15-year-old, decided to give me a "breakfast hike" for Mother's Day. I used to do it often as ...
Saturday, May 05, 2007

On the Scene

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Our girls (and their friend Matt) looking really "scene." (photo taken shortly after one of Julia's Converse shoes fell off an...

Boys Like Girls

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Jules posted this photo of Martin Johnson - Singer/Guitarist for Boys Like Girls. So much for my caution to stay out of the mosh pit!

Bamboozle Festival Day

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This morning I'm psyching myself up for the 12-hour Bamboozle Festival, 5 stages in the parking lot of the Meadowlands Arena. I am chape...
Tuesday, March 13, 2007

Patti Smith :: Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame Inductee

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I never thought that punk poet/rebel Patti Smith would make it through the lingering misogyny of the music establishment to be honored by th...
Sunday, February 18, 2007

The Gospel according to Julia

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Today in church the Gospel was Luke 9.28-37, the famous story in which Peter and the disciples go with Jesus up on the mountain to pray. The...
Sunday, February 04, 2007

Sweet Sixteen in Rural America

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Last night, as I drove to rural Greenwood Lake, New York, I worried that Jules and her friends would be disappointed at their first Sweet S...
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Saturday, December 30, 2006

A Christmas Story

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The choir arrived early so that we could rehearse prior to the start of the Christmas pageant. While we were singing, I noticed a young moth...

Assessment, as 2006 comes to a close......

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Over the years, my husband and I bought and renovated two 19th century houses in Cornwall, a historic Hudson Highlands village 55 miles nort...
Monday, November 20, 2006

Iron Chef Bake Off!

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Jules, my teenage daughter, loves the Food Network, and she decided we should have an Iron Chef-style cook off this weekend. The core ingred...
Saturday, August 12, 2006

I'm back....and working on Sesame!

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Well, it must have been a busy three years since I've posted regularly! Life is settling down, so many things have changed....I feel lik...
Sunday, March 30, 2003

Making Music with my Daughter

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Last night was Duet Night at the Ann Farber Studio, where my daughter Julia studies piano. She has just gotten back into lessons again, aft...
Monday, March 24, 2003

War Protesting

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Before leaving New York, Chris, Jules and I went to the Peace demonstration in New York City. It was a great day - sunny, spring-like weath...
Friday, March 14, 2003

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I'VE BEEN READING..... Amazon.com: Editorial Reviews: If a Place Can Make You Cry: Dispatches from an Anxious State Could it be that th...
Monday, March 10, 2003

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MATISSE-PICASSO at MOMA Friendship and Rivalry Julia and I saw the Matisse-Picasso exhibit on Saturday. Despite the crowds, it was possible...