Month: December 2010
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Birthdays
My blog is officially three, Aidan is officially 2, and the New Year will be here in a day or so. What a year. Thank you for reading, expanding life’s circle, and making my life richer in the process. Happiness, good health, and all the blessings of the New Year to you, my friends!
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Let it snow! (Baby, it’s cold outside…)
Finally, the day after Christmas, we’re having our first real honest-to-goodness snow storm! There’s nowhere we have to be, plenty of milk, cream, cocoa, tea, and coffee (covering the holy trinity of hot beverages) on hand, and thus we can hunker down and enjoy the view. With me and the boys down with colds, visiting […]
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Vincent’s beautiful mind
Vincent is still telling his Syllabo stories, but they’ve taken on a darker cast: expanding the family even further — “Syllabo has another mother and father, and two sisters…” — he stopped short…”but actually she only has one sister now. The other one died.” Oh. Let’s not explore that. He fiercely resisted bedtime the other […]
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Aracelis Girmay & Ross Gay (via The Collected Poets Series)
Thursday, December 2, 2010, at 7:00pm, poets Aracelis Girmay and Ross Gay will read as part of the fourth season of the Collected Poets Series. ($2-5 suggested donation) Aracelis Girmay writes poetry, fiction, and essays. Her collage-based picture book, changing, changing, was published by George Braziller in 2005, and her book of poems, Teeth, … Read More via […]