Image credit: Photo by crowbert on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons On my wrist is a bright yellow rubber bracelet with LIVESTRONG imprinted on it. I plucked it from a small wicker basket on a table next to a guest book at a memorial service where one of the loved ones spoke about the task [...]
Posts under ‘who can spot my literary allusion?’
The Fall of a Sparrow
Image credit: Photo by Ashley Dinges on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons "I don't want to get up and I don't want to go to school!" my daughter Janie yelled when she heard me chime "Time to get up!" this morning. ("Well, maybe tonight you will go to sleep on time so you won't be [...]
A&E’s Intervention
Image credit: Photo by emdot on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons I've heard a lot about the A&E series Intervention, but since I've never wanted to spring for the cost of satellite or an extended cable package, I'd never actually watched it myself until this week: I followed The Discovering Alcoholic's link to streaming video [...]
February Is the Cruelest Month
Image credit: Photo by luca.candini on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons Every year in February, I'm grateful for one thing: it's short. By February, I feel as if spring is so close, yet still so terribly far away, and my mood is generally at its lowest and darkest point in the whole year. So, every [...]
3:30 a.m.
Image credit: Photo byF.S.M. on FlickrLicensed under Creative Commons I've calculated the precise moment at which mothering instincts kick in, and that moment is 3:30 a.m. Actually, I'm extrapolating a little. I'm not sure that it was actually 3:30 a.m. the very first time my own mothering instincts kicked in. I'm not sure what time [...]
