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Week 25: Mashed potatoes, New York City & Sarah’s kitchen

Posted in dinner, family dinner, parenting, tagged , , , , , , , on April 25, 2010 | 1 Comment »

“Middle age is when you’re sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn’t for you.”  ~ Ogden Nash (American poet) Harsh, but dead on. Especially this past Saturday night. Noah was gone for a week on a school adventure trip, rafting down a river in Big Bend [...]

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Finding common ground with Swiss chard, Mexican soda, and Greece

Posted in family dinner, parenting, tagged , , on April 21, 2010 | 3 Comments »

“Need any help with dinner, Mom?” — Noah, last night He was clearly avoiding homework, but I’ll take it. To further endear himself to me, he knew how to expertly cut up Swiss chard. What 12-year-old knows that? Was this the same kid who was in the fetal position, moaning at the bottom of our [...]

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Week 25: Single parenting meets no screen week, deadlines & amazing arugula

Posted in dinner, family dinner, parenting, tagged , on April 19, 2010 | 2 Comments »

“Sex is good, but not as good as fresh sweet corn.” — Garrison Keillor OK, no corn here — yet. But I was eating my local, organic arugula out of the plastic bin before I even washed it. Last year, I joined an organic produce co-op. Recently, I joined a CSA (community-supported agriculture), where you [...]

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Country 13: Ghana

Posted in Africa, tagged , , on April 15, 2010 | 1 Comment »

“Fifty-two years ago, the eyes of the world were on Ghana. And a young preacher named Martin Luther King traveled here, to Accra, to watch the Union Jack come down and the Ghanaian flag go up. This was before the march on Washington or the success of the civil rights movement in my country. Dr. [...]

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Rituals: Milk and sugar with that stress?

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , on April 13, 2010 | 3 Comments »

“When tea becomes ritual, it takes its place at the heart of our ability to see greatness in small things. Where is beauty to be found? In great things that, like everything else, are doomed to die, or in small things that aspire to nothing, yet know how to set a jewel of infinity in [...]

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Week 24: Meat week

Posted in family dinner, parenting, tagged , on April 12, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

“If we’re not supposed to eat animals, how come they’re made out of meat?” — Tom Snyder (American television personality from the ’70s and ’80s) We have crazy weeks ahead of us. This week, Noah’s gone. As he returns on Friday, Sawyer and Clyde leave. Monday, Clyde heads to Rhode Island. The next week, I’m [...]

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Week 23: Putting my big girl panties on

Posted in Africa, dinner, family dinner, parenting, tagged , on April 6, 2010 | 2 Comments »

“People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.” — Emily Dickinson It’s been 12 days since the burglary. Life is moving on. Stuff is being replaced. Insurance forms are done. Alarm system is installed. The sting is not quite as painful. Sure, I will miss my engagement ring. But I still have the notes [...]

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Our family … unplugged

Posted in parenting, tagged , , , , , on April 5, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

“Technology … is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other.”  ~ C.P. Snow, The New York Times, March 1971 I’ve found an upside to being burgled — missing electronics. Of course this doesn’t apply to me and my Mac. I limped [...]

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