We’ve had our desktop PC in a closet for a year (boring reasons) and have recently set it up again. All of the sudden my old tabs and bookmarks are up again, and I kind of feel like blogging again. Except I can’t. Almost everything I’m going through that matters, that I really want to [...]
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Struggles
Posted in Planet Sster on July 9, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Friday Preschool at Home; the Garden
Posted in Parenting, Planet Sster, Teaching, The Prairie, The Snapper on May 2, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Yesterday was language development day. After a successful attempt at getting the Snapper dressed without a fuss–victory is mine!–taking a stroller ride to KMart for laundry detergent, and some wonderful freeplay, we played with a stack of letter cards together. They’re the kind with the letter and some sort of representative object. We just went [...]
Thanksgiving.
Posted in I'm not supposed to blog about my family, Parenting, Planet Sster on November 27, 2008 | 4 Comments »
SIXTEEN persons, SIX (J, J, L, C, E, S) of them under seven, five of those six mobile, under one roof. I somehow find myself simultaneously glad for just my one and longing for many more.
Happy Thanksgiving.
(apologies to the fam for getting the count wrong)
Thankful
Posted in I'm not supposed to blog about my family, Planet Sster on November 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
that I’m here:
Posted in Adopting, Adoption, Food Glorious Food, Parenting, Planet Sster on November 17, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I don’t have a specific agenda today. I just wanted to show up, in part because I was struck this morning–for no particular reason–by my die-hard readers who show up themselves from time to time just in case I’ve written anything, even if I haven’t written in a long time. I guess I shouldn’t be [...]
Patience
Posted in Dazed and Confused; or, Living Well with ADD, Food Glorious Food, Planet Sster on November 12, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Today I am soaking chick peas, waiting for bread to rise, waiting for laundry loads to wash and dry, waiting for a child to go to sleep and waiting for him to wake up again, waiting for Attic Man to come home and waiting for my mother-in-law’s visit.
So much of domestic work is about patience. [...]
Serial Hobbiest
Posted in Dazed and Confused; or, Living Well with ADD, Food Glorious Food, Planet Sster on November 7, 2008 | 2 Comments »
One of the most enjoyable parts of ADHD is the pairing of the unpredictable, whimsicle, serendipidous direction of one’s interests and the ability to hyperfocus. The result, at least in my life, is that I am what I call a “serial hobbiest.” (Lest you think we hyperactive sorts have the market share, Attic Man is [...]
Stupid flood.
Posted in All Wet, Dissertating, Planet Sster, Reading, Writing on November 6, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Last night I attended the lecture of a prestigious senior academic with degrees and books galore and found myself passionately, burningly, fundamentally troubled by her premise. It is opposed to the very principle that guides my work in literary criticism and cultural studies–and when I confronted her with it she said, simply, “you must not [...]
On Being Quiet
Posted in Planet Sster, Race, The Prairie on August 4, 2008 | 8 Comments »
It hasn’t been for lack of suitable material: my son’s rapidly growing, frequently outlandish vocabulary (which tonight expanded to include “pastaaaaaaa!” with a little growl); my evolving sense of race issues both personally and communally in our new neighborhood; the astounding–and I do not exaggerate–fact that our house has remained neat, clean, and under control [...]
