Monthly Archives: November 2014

Today the kids told me their roles for the church Christmas play, and they couldn’t understand why I kept dissolving into giggles.  My fiercely independent, occasionally bossy girl as a sheep?  And the boy who came home from school this … Continue reading →

Erin

The excitement at Cornell these days surrounds a big flower we have on campus. A very big flower. And a stinky one. Hence the name “Wee Stinky.” The flower has its own blog, Facebook page, Twitter feed, live webcam, etc. … Continue reading →

“Where do robbers live?  Why don’t we ever see robbers?” Nathaniel launches this one at me while I’m getting ready for school.  He seems a bit dismayed that he knows about something that he’s never had a chance to see … Continue reading →

Sydney comes home tonight so that our whole family can be reunited for the first time in a month.  Both he and I had conferences (Berlin for him, Pittsburgh for me), and we’re looking forward to some quiet time as … Continue reading →

I went to a panel this morning on literature of the First World War (specifically, visual representations of broken, absent, and reconstructed bodies), and as the panel started we suddenly heard a drum corps warm up.  A major Veteran’s Day … Continue reading →

This morning Sydney humored me by agreeing to walk from his apartment to his office in Ithaca.  On the map this looks simple, since they’re only a mile to a mile-and-a-half apart.  But there is an altitude change of a … Continue reading →