“We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck and, ask anyone, the house is never burgled and the ship never goes down.” — Jean Anouilh, French playwright I, the eternal optimist, totally agree with the sentiment. But, alas, I was proven wrong last week. Our house was burgled (a word I still love, [...]
Archive for March, 2010
Week 22: We’ve been burgled!
Posted in dinner, family dinner, parenting, tagged burgled on March 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Week 21: Spring fever & dinner for 12
Posted in Africa, dinner, family dinner, parenting, tagged Africa, breakfast, Congo Restoration, schedule, Zimbabwe on March 22, 2010 | 1 Comment »
“Dust in our eyes our own boots kicked up. Heartsick we nursed along the way we picked up. You may not see it when it’s sticking to your skin, but we’re better off for all that we let in.” — Emily Sailers of the Indigo Girls I’ve had a lot of dust (and smoke) in my eyes [...]
Week 20: Spring breaking in a teepee
Posted in dinner, family dinner, parenting, tagged camping, spring break, teepee on March 17, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
“The fire is the main comfort of the camp, whether in summer or winter, and is about as ample at one season as at another. It is as well for cheerfulness as for warmth and dryness.” ~ Henry David Thoreau I’m taking this week off — not from living out the blog and all that [...]
Sometimes one-on-one is best
Posted in family dinner, parenting on March 12, 2010 | 1 Comment »
“I slip in bed when you’re asleep, to hold you close and feel your breath on me. Tomorrow there’ll be so much to do, so tonight I’ll drift in a dream with you.” ~ Dixie Chicks in Lullaby Sawyer is not the squeaky wheel in our family. So I was taken by surprise when he had [...]
From Congo to Dallas, women helping women
Posted in Africa, tagged Africa, congo, Congo Restoration, DRC, Half the Sky, rwanda, Women for Women International on March 8, 2010 | 1 Comment »
“We [Congolese] try hard to break the silence about all the rape, the sexual slavery, but the entire world remains in silence. Congolese blood is in the street, and no one says anything. It is so painful. You have no idea.” — my friend Gorethy Nabushosi, a Congolese attorney who fought for women’s rights in [...]
Week 19: From snarky to smores to something special
Posted in dinner, family dinner, parenting, tagged cabin, weekend on March 7, 2010 | 1 Comment »
“This is going to be the worst, most boring weekend ever.” — Noah, Friday afternoon on our way out of town. We had plans to go to a cabin in East Texas with friends who have boys the same ages as our boys. Their youngest got sick, so we decided to go it alone. Well, [...]
Week 18: Four months down
Posted in dinner, family dinner, tagged breakfast, dinner, family dinner, Half the Sky on March 1, 2010 | 2 Comments »
“Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.” ~ Voltaire Amen! Today marks the four-month anniversary of this blog project. Four months of eating one meal together every day (except for one slip-up, for which we made amends the next day). Four [...]
I’m bringing dinner back. Yeah.
Why dinner?
Featured country
Pages
What i’m reading now
tags
Become a Fan on Facebook
Follow me on Twitter
- @SamLandsberger hard to explain in a tweet. I'm editor of @INMAorg's Ideas magazine and want to feature a story on SuperCoach. Email me? 4 weeks ago
- @SamLandsberger I'd like to have a story on SuperCoach for @INMAorg. Could you email me @ dmcmullan@inma.org? @dawnmcmullan. 1 month ago
Archives
