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It was all gravy, every minute of it.
Friday, July 1, 2011
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
A Happy Ending
"A happy ending cannot come in the middle of the story."
Prince Lir, The Last Unicorn Movie
Sunday, June 19, 2011
The Warmness of You
Imogen to me:
"Do you know why I like you so much?
Because you're warm.
I like the warmness of you."
"Do you know why I like you so much?
Because you're warm.
I like the warmness of you."
Thursday, June 16, 2011
Happiness Is...
How to Land Your Kid in Therapy
Why the obsession with our kids' happiness may be dooming them to unhappy adulthoods. A therapist and mother reports.
-Lori Gottlieb, the Atlantic
Thursday, June 2, 2011
Greater Efforts
"Even the White House has proclaimed that parents need more flexibility to meet their responsibilities at home, as employers demand longer hours and greater efforts from those who still have jobs."
Ann Crittenden, The Price of Motherhood
What Happened Was Just This
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| Waking up on your 5th birthday to find yourself in the newspaper wearing your favorite costume is pretty cool! |
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Tulip May Sky
Imogen says if she has a baby girl when she's grown up, she's going to name her Tulip May Sky.
Monday, May 9, 2011
Thursday, April 28, 2011
House Life
My friend Sally says instead of actually cleaning your house, you just keep your vacuum cleaner in the living room. Then if a friend comes over, you say, "Oh, I was just about to clean!"
Thursday, April 14, 2011
Monday, April 11, 2011
Friday, April 8, 2011
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
A Blog Blossoms
I started this blog four years ago today with a post called "A Blog Blooms." Imogen was 10 months.
Friday, April 1, 2011
Thursday, March 31, 2011
Poppy Daisy Petal Buddy
Jamie ("The Naked Chef") and Jools Oliver's children are named:
Poppy Honey Rosie
Daisy Boo Pamela
Petal Blossom Rainbow
Buddy Bear Maurice
Poppy Honey Rosie
Daisy Boo Pamela
Petal Blossom Rainbow
Buddy Bear Maurice
Monday, March 28, 2011
Eyeshot
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| Port Angeles Coast Guard Station on Ediz Hook with Cascade Mountains in Background and Port Angeles Harbor in Foreground |
Thursday, March 24, 2011
Council on Women and Girls
Did you know the White House has a Council on Women and Girls? Barack Obama created it by Executive Order on March 11, 2009. Valerie Jarrett, the Chair, will be part of a live-streamed discussion on March 30 about women in the workplace, education and work-life balance called "Women in America: Continuing the Conversation." You can submit questions or thoughts for Valerie Jarrett here.
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
There is the Softening
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| ("There is the softening" is from the poem "Wisdom, Logic, Light" by Kate Reavey) |
Children in Emergency
"Gwen Stefani donated $1,000,000 on Wednesday to Save the Children's Japan Earthquake-Tsunami Children in Emergency Fund to help in the relief and recovery effort."
Reuters via Hollywood Reporter via Google News
Image: Wikimedia Commons
You Do the Best You Can
"Today's woman is expected to be well-read, faultlessly groomed, a nursemaid, chauffeur, laundress, seamstress, hostess, cook, gardener, painter, appliance repairman, wallpaper-hanger, carpenter, exterminator (for those awful bugs of all sorts) and jane-of-all trades!
Being a homemaker is a big job for anyone, and you and I are going to make mistakes. But so what? That's the way we learn!
So, relieve your mind of a lot of its frustrations by simply accepting the fact that you are a woman. Next, make yourself believe that you do the best you can. Probably you do! Tranquilizers are expensive...so are doctor's bills."
From "Dear Fellow Housewives," Heloise's Houskeeping Hints by Heloise, 1962
Image from Baby Dear, illustrated by Eloise Wilkin, 1962
via try-whistling-this on flickr
Life Happened
Remembering Elizabeth Taylor
And Celebrating the Power One Woman Can Possess
“Being alive for Elizabeth Taylor meant a near-constant spotlight, starting not long after she was born…[i]t meant a tumultuous relationship with her own beauty and her ideas of love. ‘I never planned to acquire a lot of jewels or a lot of husbands,’ she told Kim Kardashian (yes) not long ago. ‘For me, life happened, just as it does for anyone else.’”
Carmon, Irin. "Remembering Elizabeth Taylor's Outsized, Unapologetic Life." Jezebel.com. March 23, 2011. Image: Wikimedia Commons.
Thursday, March 17, 2011
Take Up a Challenge
“Sarah Burton tells British Vogue in the February issue that - perhaps shockingly given her critical acclaim - she nearly didn't take the position as creative director of the Alexander McQueen label after its founder's death. The 36-year-old designer says: ‘For quite a long time I didn't want the job. I thought: how would I ever even begin to begin?…I thought about what I wanted. What was best for me. Like many women my age, I do want children, but I came to think that that's not a reason not to take up a challenge. In the end, I decided to just get on with it: do my best.’”
Hilbrenner, Jill. "Sarah Burton's Interview with Alexander McQueen Included UFO Questions." The Fash Pack. January 7, 2011. Image: Wikimedia Commons.
Monday, March 14, 2011
His First Memory
"Rufus Wainwright watched, uncomprehending, as the family's dining-room table disappeared into the back of a U-Haul. It was the fall of 1976 and he was three years old. He didn't fully understand that his parents, singer-songwriters Kate McGarrigle and Loudon Wainwright III, were splitting up, for good, after having endured five stormy years together. The image of that table being loaded into the truck would burn itself into his brain as his first memory."
Windolf, Jim. "Songs in the Key of Lacerating." Vanity Fair.com May 22, 2007. Image: Wikimedia Commons.
Windolf, Jim. "Songs in the Key of Lacerating." Vanity Fair.com May 22, 2007. Image: Wikimedia Commons.
Sunday, March 13, 2011
Child of the Pacific Northwest
During my pregnancy with Imogen I first heard of the photographer Imogen Cunningham. HistoryLink.org, the "Free Online Encyclopedia of Washington State History," has an essay that details her inspiring life.
"Dream" by Imogen Cunningham, 1910
Saturday, March 12, 2011
Captainess Hook
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| On Ediz Hook on Sunday Ediz Hook is a narrow sand spit projecting into the Strait of Juan de Fuca in north central Tacoma Public Library |
Friday, March 11, 2011
Binoculars
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| Immy likes making the cardboard rolls Teacher Ginny brings for crafts into telescopes and binoculars. |
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
More Than They Can Do
"All women have more than they can do because they take on more than they have strength for. A woman did not (in the old days) paint her kitchen, wash the car, drive the children to school, weed the lawn, pay the bills, worry about budgeting and insurance. Her husband did these things or hired someone."
From "Dear Fellow Housewives," Heloise's Houskeeping Hints by Heloise, 1962
Image from We Help Daddy, illustrated by Eloise Wilkin, 1962
via Cassandra Considers… blog
Empress of Escapades
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"1949: The famous children's author Enid Blyton with her two daughters Gillian, left, and Imogen at their home in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire. Photo: Getty Images" |
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
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