Last week, I was emailing with a friend– she was having a hard time, and I sent her this poem. I was minded of it again this morning, on my drive back from the Trader Joe’s, as I was picking up a housewarming gift for our hosts for a weekend away.
Mary Oliver’s “Mindful”, from Why I […]
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One of those perfect moments
Posted in sparkly on Apr 21st, 2010
It was early– 10 am in the morning– and I had bright, gorgeous escarole in my basket. I’d bought lamb shoulder meat for this recipe and I was dressed if not to the nines, then, well, perhaps to at least eight and a half in a batik-print skirt, navy twinset and sandals. I’d even put […]
A picture is worth more than a thousand words
Posted in Better Half, bipolar, flickr, good things, links, photos, sparkly on Apr 6th, 2010
Well, since my last post, it hasn’t quite been boils, fell beasts and death– but there have been a variety of dramas and ailments. To acknowledge the hard times of late, my Better Half bought me a present on what was– for me– not a Good Friday at all.
Pics, ’cause it happened.
But wait. There is more. […]
Who is the Unknown
Posted in sparkly on Dec 25th, 2009
… Then who is the Unknown
Who answers for our fear
As if it were His own,
So that we reply
Till the day we die:
“No, I don’t know why,
But I’m glad I’m here?”
from Auden’s For the Time Being, A Christmas Oratorio, The Vision of the Shepherds, Part II.
Merry Christmas, friends.
I’m glad you’re here.
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Posted in YouTube, just plain silly, links, music, sparkly on Sep 30th, 2009
The Backstreet Boys have a new song! Why did nobody tell me this until I was listening to the Top 40 radio station in my car?!?
Yes, I AM totally serious about being excited. I am unashamed about my love for the Backstreet Boys, Britney Spears, and Kelly Clarkson. I will have you know […]
Real Seltzer Should Hurt
Posted in good things, links, sparkly, writing on Sep 27th, 2009
Here’s a piece in the NYT about the seltzer deliveryman of Brooklyn, who fell and hurt himself, depriving two hundred customers of actual hand-pushed seltzer, complete in antique seltzer containers. And this is why I love the NYT, even when sometimes their slip in editorial standards sends me, weeping and clicking, to the Guardian.co.uk site. […]
Your weekend moment of Zen
Posted in Better Half, just plain silly, sparkly on Sep 25th, 2009
Your weekend moment of Zen is brought to you by the Better Half, who poured me my FOURTH glass of prosecco not long ago.
It’s true– once the bubbles are gone, it’s no good.
Wishing you all a fizzy weekend with no hangovers.
Kids these days …
Posted in Better Half, links, meta, music, nerd, sparkly on Sep 10th, 2009
The husband upgraded the version of Wordpress I use yesterday, which involved a fair amount of cussing at the site host server– #&*&%^&%$ timed logouts and non-intuitive layout and fucked up contradictory upload and ftp client server sections, GoDaddy can Yo Mama as far as the BH is concerned– and then a certain amount of […]
Feed Me Bubbe
Posted in YouTube, cooking, good things, sparkly on Aug 26th, 2009
I wanted to use the Yiddish term Bubbe yesterday– when I googled it, this was the number one page-ranked result– an actual guy’s Bubbe, giving lessons in kosher cuisine on You Tube. (Teh You Tubes for you younger kids.) I haven’t watched it all the way through, but it just kills me in […]
When the gays come marching in, Saturday night edition
Posted in good things, sparkly on Jun 13th, 2009
It’s Gay Pride weekend here in Boston– today was the parade and tomorrow’s the AIDS Walk. The section of Boston we live in has a nice share of gay and lesbian residents and all day today we’ve seen people in superhero and other rainbow colored costumes walking down our street to the T Station. As […]