I compose today’s entry from a desk overlooking my in-laws’ back yard. Despite living in a rather large suburb of Minneapolis, the Burts have a great natural prospect out the back windows. Their yard is large and full of trees (unlike Texas, Minnesotan trees actually lose their leaves in winter), and a little frozen creek [...]
Archive > December 2005
Holiday Haul
Is it juvenile to blog – yes, I’ve turned “blog” into a verb; or perhaps I should say that I’ve verbed the word blog – anyway…Is it juvenile to blog about one’s Christmas haul? Not that childishness ever stopped me from doing anything. In that case, I’ll blog about what I got for Christmas. (Of [...]
Christmas Carols
Tuesday night we saw the Dallas Theater Center’s wonderful production of A Christmas Carol. We’ve seen it several times since I was a kid, but this year’s was truly the perfect performance. (Even if I was ignorant enough to read the curtain as 7:30 on the ticket and somehow interpret that as an 8:00 start [...]
What kind of minds think alike?
Recent events reveal that, for all I think my brother Greg is just like my husband Jeff, Greg and I are, undoubtedly, siblings. Seriously, we’re rather like twins born five years apart. (Our baby pictures back this up.) In this case, I’m not talking about looks, though one can hardly see the pair of us [...]
“And now, Harry…”
…let us step out into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure” (Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Half-blood Prince, p. 56).
Alyssa is, on a daily basis, asking me what adventures I’ve had. She never asks me if I’ve had any – she just assumes that I’ve had them. She believes adventure is all a [...]
