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Here. Now. | Grits, Tits, and Oven Mitts
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Grits, Tits, and Oven Mitts. Your Daily Kick In The Nuts. It’s three years later. Really, it’s six years later. I spat something onto this page back in 2010, in a faint-hearted attempt to renew my creative juices. They drowned again. But something is different this time. This time, I believe. Ray LaMontagne had to point out the obvious to me. He had to tell me to be here, now. But more important than my location on google maps, my wardrobe, and my current physical comforts: I am HERE. NOW. When I’m...
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Madness! | Grits, Tits, and Oven Mitts
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Grits, Tits, and Oven Mitts. Your Daily Kick In The Nuts. Garden State. Yes. I’ve been way too happy with white walls. The crudely animated space lobster on the TV makes far more sense to me than Fareed Zakariah. Is that wrong? I’m in my early thirties and married and all that. Shouldn’t I be concerned with worldly goings-on? Nah I’ll leave the politics to my non-citizen husband. There’s an alcoholic robot to appease me. Laquo; And now for something completely different. Date : April 13, 2010. Not Just N...
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The pain of music. | Grits, Tits, and Oven Mitts
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Grits, Tits, and Oven Mitts. Your Daily Kick In The Nuts. The pain of music. 8220;Sometimes, making music is painful. Sometimes, that’s the point.”. I typed these words on Facebook just a few minutes ago, in response to my own status. Piano time, it said; I had mentioned that kleenexes might be necessary for this go ’round with my 88-keyed lover. Why is it painful to be a musician? Why do so many of us carry the perpetual undercurrent of ennui? We have a gift! This is where the pain comes in. Because mus...
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All Frayed Edges and Shades of Red: March 2012
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All Frayed Edges and Shades of Red. No one warned me this would all be so messy. Sunday, March 04, 2012. On Becoming Mrs. Haviland. She invited six friends. I have become Mrs. Haviland. Mom Haviland. I could do a lot worse. If I can do half as well at this as you did, I'll feel like a success at this parenting thing. Links to this post. Friday, March 02, 2012. What the hell to you know about this? I just hope I don't sound scary. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). I'm a 50-something mom, wif...
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All Frayed Edges and Shades of Red: August 2010
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All Frayed Edges and Shades of Red. No one warned me this would all be so messy. Friday, August 27, 2010. It's been nine months since the Bug left us. I don't know why that is significant, except that I carried her for nine months before she was born, so this feels like some sort of weird symmetry. It really doesn't make me sad. It is just a time to mark, I guess. The combine demolition derby. Yes, I will repeat that. Combine. Demolition. Derby. Oh yeah. There's a post in there, I think. As everyone on t...
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All Frayed Edges and Shades of Red: Four
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All Frayed Edges and Shades of Red. No one warned me this would all be so messy. Friday, November 29, 2013. It's been four years since you left. Actually, it was four years on Wednesday, but as we've discussed before, it's easier for all of us if we simply think of your departure date as "The day after Thanksgiving", rather than a numerical date. It's easy to remember, and it keeps Thanksgiving from ever coinciding with The Worst Thing Ever. Which we all want to avoid. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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All Frayed Edges and Shades of Red: December 2010
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All Frayed Edges and Shades of Red. No one warned me this would all be so messy. Saturday, December 25, 2010. Sleep in Heavenly Peace. Links to this post. Wednesday, December 22, 2010. What makes us American. Today, President Obama signed the repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell into law. I wish it would suddenly fix the economy. It won't. I wish it would end these intractable wars we're in (see one of the main reasons for our economic woes, above). It won't do that, either. Links to this post. Confidential t...
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All Frayed Edges and Shades of Red: January 2011
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All Frayed Edges and Shades of Red. No one warned me this would all be so messy. Thursday, January 27, 2011. Boy, Did I Need To See THIS Today. Brene Brown on the power of vulnerability, from TED. To Mak, who had the wisdom to turn me (and others) onto this: Thank you. It's like you crawled inside my head and pulled out the very thing that's holding me back. I respect you so much and I'm so grateful for the influence you have on me and all the others in our community. You rock, girlie. Links to this post.
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All Frayed Edges and Shades of Red: November 2011
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All Frayed Edges and Shades of Red. No one warned me this would all be so messy. Sunday, November 27, 2011. We've managed, somehow, to make it though another year without you here to help guide the sun and make it a little brighter. Hard to believe. A lot has changed. Daddy is about to graduate and start his PhD program; I think he's finally realized that his moving on is about honoring. I miss listening to you do the Soba chant ( So-ba! Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete pr...
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