Excavating

Show & Tell: Wedding invitation

November 5, 2009

This past week, Roger and I marked the 15th anniversary of our engagement (click all images to magnify). As longtime readers may guess, we are not the traditional type that would have a traditional wedding. Or traditional wedding invitations. And before we had children, we were big film aficionados. These were the RSVP cards. And, [...]

50 comments More →

Perfect Moment Monday: Retrospect

October 12, 2009

Perfect Moment Monday is about noticing a perfect moment rather than creating one. Perfect moments can be momentous or ordinary or somewhere in between. We gather once a week to engage in mindfulness about something that is right with our world. Everyone is welcome to join. Details on how to participate are at the bottom [...]

19 comments More →

Show & Tell: A falling out, of sorts

September 9, 2009

Twenty years ago I was halfway through a year working in Japan. I had been teaching English, traveling the country, and working out some issues by leaving my falling-apart life behind for a bit. Phase 1 of the year was Wonder. Everything in the Winter/Spring of 1989 was new and fascinating: the food, the people, [...]

34 comments More →

Hey, Baby. What’s Your Rung?

May 28, 2009

Here’s the way I saw the social universe during junior high and high school. Was it at all similar for you? Top rung: Football and basketball players; cheerleaders/pompon girls 2nd rung: Other jocks; friends of jocks and cheerleaders 3rd rung: Cowboys 4th rung: Smart geeks 5th rung: Band weenies and choir/theater people 6th rung: Stoners [...]

25 comments More →

The Mom Behind the Mom I Am

May 8, 2009

I was her first. She and my dad had waited nearly 4 years after getting married for my arrival. Mom and Dad both had a strange sense of humor, as evidenced by the names they came up with for me. Good thing I was a girl and became Lori. If I’d been a boy, according [...]

33 comments More →

Show & Tell: Where I Channel Olivia Newton-John

March 28, 2009

I was at a loss for Show & Tell ideas, so I tweeted about it. I got a suggestion back from My Reality: Show your ugliest _______. I tend to not hang on to ugly stuff, but I have kept something y’all might consider ugly. I stashed these away mmmmmm-ty years ago, shortly after I [...]

32 comments More →

← Previous Entries

Next Entries →