Monday, Sep 29 2008
When I call my maternal grandmother for semi-regular phone chats, at some point I ask her how she’s feeling in the aches and pains department. She usually underplays the back pain or the leg pain with some cavalier comment like, “Oh there are good days and bad days.” So often she will change the subject [...]
Categories: Daily Grind -- Tags: Death, FamilyThursday, Sep 25 2008
My friend’s water broke last night, another friend is going to the doctor today and may get induced, and about a dozen other friends and family members have due dates set for late 2008/early 2009. With all of the birthing around me, especially the one(s) this week, I’ve begun to wonder what kind of phone [...]
Categories: Daily Grind, Parenthood -- Tags: Brian, Friends, MichelleTuesday, Sep 23 2008
A week ago Friday, Brian and I were invited to a dinner party. The hostess, Paula, is an English woman and relatively new faculty member in my department. She had lived in the United States for only a few weeks before the ‘07 spring term began. For the ‘07 and ‘08 spring semesters, Paula facilitated [...]
Categories: Daily Grind -- Tags: Brian, Friends, MichelleMonday, Sep 15 2008
My hydrangea bush continues to flaunt its personality. The massive flower from June that I showed in my last post has faded to a green with rosy tips as it rounds out its life cycle. At its peak it was a pale blue, almost white. The color of hydrangea is dependent upon the pH of [...]
Categories: Blog, Daily Grind, Home -- Tags: Hydrangea, MastheadFriday, Sep 05 2008
We have often speculated that our tiny little backyard has traces of radioactivity; plants and insects seem to grow unusually large there. In the case of our hydrangea bush, we welcome the over-sized growth. Here’s a bud from June that eventually became massive.
It’s more pale than some of the other flowers, but beautiful nonetheless.
Some of [...]
Categories: Daily Grind, Home -- Tags: Hydrangea, Praying MantisTuesday, Sep 02 2008
A couple weeks ago, my husband barreled down the stairs and across the living room, stumbled over the over-sized ottoman, and then collapsed onto our over-sized chair. Brian is both coordinated and athletic, but occasionally around the house he carries himself with this sort of lazy, bulky (not to be confused with Balky) [...]
Categories: Daily Grind, Marriage -- Tags: Birthday, Brian