The other night I was talking with a group of women, all mothers. I’m fairly certain I was the only woman in the group who has steadily worked full time after having kids. One woman was telling us about her work hours, which involve weekends. She commented that she was fine with this, because she [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘What's With That?’
April 27, 2008
From the Sublime…
To the surreal.
This is Tom. Well, that’s what I’ve named him, anyway. Tom is a wild turkey, albeit a very well-fed one, apparently.
Tom is pictured here hanging out, not in a zoo or a nature preserve – or in the wild, as wild turkeys are wont to do – but on the grounds of my workplace.
Seriously. [...]
April 19, 2008
This is not a hallucination.
Well, the other day it was sheep. Today, we’ve got ducks. I promise you, I am not seeing things!
This pair bears a striking resemblance to a charming young couple who nested here last spring – perhaps they are the same, or perhaps they heard about it from their friends. Hard to tell with ducks. I [...]
February 10, 2008
Would You Go Back If You Could?
All this thinking about the extra time I seemed to have as a kid (as well as some of the great comments I got on my Time/Space/Flow post) got me thinking about whether I’d actually want to go back to any particular time in my youth.
Answer? Not so much. Sure, I’d gladly cherry pick certain times to [...]
February 9, 2008
Going With the Flow, or, the Time/Space Continuum Refuses to Cooperate.
Time is such a contrary entity. No matter how I try, I can’t tame it.
When I was a kid, I experienced life mostly as long stretches of tedium punctuated by occasional bursts of excitement – birthdays, holidays, special occasions. I so wanted those “boring” times to disappear in a poof. As I may have previously [...]
January 6, 2008
Knittin’ Stuff – NEW! With PHOTOS!
Gremlins have taken over my computer, and it’s not letting me download the photos I just took of actual Yarn Related Content. Crap!! I’ll describe, but it may lose something in the translation. [ed.: I hijacked the kids' computer and got 'er done.] It seems that I’m surrounded by (younger-than-I) women who are expecting babies [...]
December 14, 2007
FAQ Fridays
In homage to blogging sisters out there who are partial to WTF Wednesdays (gosh, I wish I had thought of that first), I thought I’d institute a feature that shall be known hereinafter as FAQ Fridays.
For those of you who are not hip to the ways of Corporatespeak, FAQs are “Frequently Asked Questions.” Memos thus [...]
December 12, 2007
Mama, don’t let your babies grow up to be lawyers.
The ABA Journal just published its list of 100 top legal “blawgs,” and of course I had to check some of them out. I was already familiar with a couple of them – most notably David Lat’s abovethelaw.com, which is a tabloid-style blog with frequent updates on the goings on at the mega law firms, crazy [...]
