In my house, it’s still cold. The heat is on. I’m knitting blanket squares. Yes, that’s a dalek. (Here’s the washcloth version. You can knit one, too. The pattern is by Penwiper and you can find it here.) Spring tulips shivering on my messy desk. The trees are starting to flower but I was wearing… Read more »
Cambridge
Photography Practice
Kevin has a fancy camera, and he takes lovely pictures. He would say the lovely pictures are because of the fancy camera, but everyone has seen uninspired pictures taken on fancy cameras, so I call bullshit on that. He takes lovely pictures because he’s good at it. Here’s a photo he took of my most… Read more »
Spring
It is RAINING NOT SNOWING. Today I wore SNEAKERS NOT BOOTS. It’s all of 36°F (2°C), but there was only one possible choice of umbrella.
“Mom, It’s Time We Had the Talk”
Go listen to my friend Amanda MacGregor and her eight-year-old son Callum talk about sex on the podcast The Longest Shortest Time. It’s twenty-two minutes long and wonderful. Amanda and Callum, I salute you. In case you were wondering, at this exact moment, it’s not snowing, but it was snowing earlier and I have no… Read more »
Five Emails and Several Pictures on the Topic of SNOW
It’s becoming difficult to take pictures that convey the absurdity of the situation here in the Boston area. The pictures just don’t do it justice (and it’s hard to get a full view of anything, because backing up quickly puts you against a snowbank). It’s not unusual to walk down a badly-shoveled sidewalk with walls… Read more »
Two Songs
It started snowing Saturday morning, then snowed steadily until very early this morning (Tuesday). Add an additional two feet or so to the pictures I posted last week and you’ll get the idea. At some point, I started taking little videos of the scene on my street and sending them to my nieces in Florida…. Read more »
The Report from Eastern Massachusetts
Dear readers, Here in Cambridge, we’re having some problems. I’m sorry about this person’s bike. I’m sorry about this person’s… car? (Though at least they have a parking spot.) It says “MOST BURRIED.” Too much snow affects people’s spelling. The mailman looks like the Grim Reaper. The fire hydrants are shivering. Some person has lost… Read more »
Randutiae That Reflect the Scattered State of My Brains
I’ve been a very poor blogger lately. I have a list as long as my arm of things I’ve been wanting to blog about, but the spirit has not been moving me. In particular, I’ve been going through a period of grievously fractured focus with my writing, and have been wanting to blog something about… Read more »
Home
This… is the southern tip of Greenland. Wow. And this… and this… and especially this… is how I know I’m home. 🙂
Today
Here in Cambridge, as in a number of nearby towns, we are generally all doing what we’re told and staying inside while the search for the Boston Marathon bombings suspect continues. What a strange and difficult day. What a hard week the Boston area has had. I have been thinking a lot about the parts… Read more »
