Category Archives: The kids

July: not just fireworks

Posted on August 3, 2009 by K

It’s not easy to write about life at the same time you are living it.  What did Wordsworth say?  Poetry is strong emotion as recollected in tranquility?  Yeah.  Tranquility.  A poet who was obviously not a mother.   Because I … Continue reading →

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Kind of a Stupid Day

Posted on July 28, 2009 by K

1. Morning: Max slept here last night, but Ginna did not – as she had to pick Kris up at the airport. And G has sessions all day, and Chaz is sick. So I need to be the one who … Continue reading →

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The 4th: part tres

Posted on July 10, 2009 by K

When I was a kid, I fell in love with Polyanna.  The movie, I mean, not the character.  I loved the prisms.  And I loved most of all the 4th of July bazaar—the games and the flags and the corn on … Continue reading →

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That’s my baby –

Posted on May 29, 2009 by K

If you click here, you’ll be able to see the film M was working on before he left on his mission.  He was one of three (I think) producers.  It’s only a few minutes long.  But it so, so beautiful. … Continue reading →

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Mowing

Posted on May 23, 2009 by K

Gin has done  her own study of this, but I find that I  have a little more to say. The odd thing about growing up is the ghosts you run into. I can remember G coming into the house one … Continue reading →

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Easter

Posted on April 16, 2009 by K

First of all, may I tell you that after all that snow yesterday, the sun came out and melted it all?  We went to bed looking forward to more spring, which we thought would come bounding back today.  Ummm.  At … Continue reading →

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first spring –

Posted on April 11, 2009 by K

I always wait till there’s not enough light to shoot decently by, and then neither one of these wiggly people will hold still enough.  But you really do have to shoot forsythia in spring – it’s heart-healthy.  Traditionally, I shoot … Continue reading →

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Babysitting –

Posted on April 3, 2009 by K

  Through the looking glass: Gram is Scooter-sitting.            Don’t let these pictures fool you.  I am, at my very best, a reluctant babysitter. There was a time when I was willing to do it for … Continue reading →

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Large Syringe/Shorter Ghost

Posted on November 1, 2007 by K

Nov 1, 2007 The little absurdities of life (or—another excuse not to sit down and face writing the last chapters of the latest book). Scene: my house with Ginna in it. Ginna (pointing at me): Max, what’s her name? Max … Continue reading →

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