Category Archives: Family

~:: The Tiniest Family Thanksgiving ::~

Posted on November 27, 2013 by K

Okay.  So life gets very complicated when your children grow up and start marrying people, and by default, the other people’s families.  Once it was just no big deal, filling up the places at the table. I can remember, both … Continue reading →

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~:: Odd Gifts by Hand ::~

Posted on November 15, 2013 by K

For those who choose to live in far-away places (even not so very far-away is far), gifts have to be chosen or made and wrapped and in some way conveyed across space long before the Great Holiday happens. I really … Continue reading →

Posted in Felt stuff, holidays, Making Things, Stuffed things, The g-kids, The kids | Tagged , , , , | 6 Comments

~:: November 2013 ::~

Posted on November 7, 2013 by K

I know this is November because G has already sucked up all the leaves. October is a glorious riot.  November is this quiet, sorta peaceful and bland time between wild October and glorious December. See how the children are playing … Continue reading →

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~:: Just stuff ::~

Posted on October 1, 2013 by K

First this. October – obviously, I guess.  Sometimes, I’m just moving through the house in the usual way when suddenly something strikes me as strange and wonderful. In this case, it was two things: the juxtaposition of the quiet dark … Continue reading →

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~:: Another Sampler:Summer ::~

Posted on July 17, 2013 by K

I am still not myself. I don’t care about capturing light. I don’t care about writing. I don’t care about making things. The fact that I don’t care about cleaning the house is the only reassuringly normal thing about these … Continue reading →

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~:: Drivin’ South in June ::~

Posted on June 28, 2013 by K

I cannot help myself. Every time we make the drive down to New Mexico, there is so much to see, and I never get tired of it. So I always take pictures of it. But to love me is to … Continue reading →

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~:: Nests ::~

Posted on June 27, 2013 by K

Once upon a time, now a very long time ago, we children regularly travelled to Chicago to get our teeth fixed. I think about that now—we were living in New York—how impressive that could have sounded: “Hey, I’d LOVE to … Continue reading →

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~:: Ergodicity ::~

Posted on June 17, 2013 by K

What a swell word. Has to do with statistics, mostly – as in the consideration of erstwhile moments as indications of probability in a system. Or something. I am choosing to mean it thus: any given moment in the past … Continue reading →

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~:: 365 Dollars Short ::~

Posted on June 11, 2013 by K

The last time I really felt like telling a story here – I mean, that feeling that drives you to put things into words – was last year. A year ago.  And I didn’t do it. It was on a … Continue reading →

Posted in A little history, Epiphanies and Meditations, Events, Family, Fun Stuff, holidays, Rachel, Seasons, The g-kids, The kids, The outside world | Tagged , , , , , | 23 Comments

~:: Being Connected ::~

Posted on May 29, 2013 by K

I came from a tiny family – three of us kids.  But my parents came from tinier ones: two kids in each family. I had one uncle (and his wife) and one aunt (and her husband). Four cousins in one … Continue reading →

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