Thankful*

I took these pictures yesterday, out my front door. Like heaven, the way the storm came through spreading the arc of a double rainbow and then left the world golden and blue and vermillion with the setting sun. I’m so thankful for this place that I call home–and also this place here, where I can [...]

Code switching

It always goes poorly when I fail to make a clean break. When I try to eek out just a little more productivity: finish a paragraph, or a bit of code, while my kids close in, wanting things. “Mommy look! Can I have some crackers Mommy? I’m hungry. When are we having snack?” And it’s [...]

A list from today:

Hello! It’s so easy for me to slip back into not posting–having failed miserably at NaBloPoMo. But I refuse. So here I am with a few highlights from today: * Alone all day to work on projects with only the cat for company * A phone call with my older sister whose little boy is [...]

This moment

At the counter after school. Ramin noodles + scallions in warm broth. Israel Kamakawiwo’ole + his banjo on the stereo. And for a moment we were just there at the counter, the three of us slurping the extra long noodles and giggling and drinking the broth straight from the bowl and I could feel how [...]

Emergent Process

Today the first snow. Not really the fat flakes of later winter, but the quiet delicate fluttering of small flecks of snow nonetheless. The sky is gray except for where the clouds are pulled thin, and then the sun shines through with milky light. Out my window birds arrive: chickadees, blackbirds, crows. The alight among [...]