I have a confession to make: I jones for bad weather. Not just your average cloudy day, cold rain or pretty snow flurry, mind you. Bad weather. Severe weather. Wrath of God kind of thing. A day full of crackly skies and swift wind tingles me all the way to my toes. Tornadoes have haunted [...]
Archive for August, 2008
25 Aug
Our own special heroes
We’re watching the series Heroes on DVD, knowing from experience that science fiction for some reason crosses over well from child to teen to adult, and hoping this will help bring the Captain into a place he has something to discuss with his peers. The whole family has really gotten into it, as we draw [...]
21 Aug
It’s all in who you know…and there they are!
Small-town living has its interesting quirks. Wednesday we had several important events planned. First, Captain Oblivious had the first opportunity to tour the junior high, schedule clutched in hand, finding his way around for seven classes and lunch. We all went, as we had a number of errands on the schedule, so his brother and [...]
19 Aug
Accepting what comes–with humility
Now that the family love crisis is over, I wanted to acknowledge a very special award I received last week from Jeff Deutsch over at Building Common Ground . It’s called the Arte y Pico Award, and I received it because “Together with her husband, she’s raising two kids with autism and a third with [...]
16 Aug
Call me Sophie
So how do you choose between your children? Fortunately, this wasn’t life or death. I finally got all the babysitting arrangements, time off work and mortgage loan to pay for gas (just kidding. kind of.) arranged, so we could go see B when she came to Toronto, much closer for us than her gig out [...]
12 Aug
Toronto: Day Two
We debated many possible ways to spend the afternoon before returning to the States. My request was for a tour of the city, and the Cabana Boy was willing to oblige by being the driver. (Tho it must be said Canadian drivers are very polite, if somewhat unpredictable.) First we headed to the waterfront at [...]
11 Aug
O Canada!
This weekend I had to make a traumatic choice between two of my children (a story for another day, when the scars fade), and I chose to make the trek to Toronto, Ontario to see B, who’d come in from Reno for a week to visit a friend. I’ve been to this truly international and [...]
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