Posted in Poems and Stories, Raquel on Feb 28th, 2006 1 Comment »
This haiku on photographs came out much more scathing than I intended, but I still rather like it–
unnaturally frozen moment
yanked from life
to decay on paper
Posted in Raquel, Real Life Quotes on Feb 28th, 2006 No Comments »
We have returned from our many and adventurous travels. Gabrielle and I both plan to write up our experiences as blog posts at some point, but I think today we were both still recovering from our adventurous travels. While you’re waiting here are our actual quotes from the trip. As always these quotes are entirely [...]
Posted in Gabrielle on Feb 20th, 2006 No Comments »
Hello to all you fair, blog-reading peoples. I have an announcement. Today Raquel and I will be getting on a train that will take us here and then we will get off and then we’ll get on a different train that will take us over there for a while. The result of all these gallivantings [...]
Posted in Raquel on Feb 20th, 2006 No Comments »
Today Gabrielle and I take a train from Bloomington to Erie, with a five hour layover in Chicago. Next Monday we will return, again with a five hour layover in Chicago. In the week between we will be in Erie visiting Gabrielle’s old haunts and various members of her family (and Barb). So will our [...]
Posted in Poems and Stories, Raquel on Feb 18th, 2006 No Comments »
February–
cold coffee grounds
settled in my mug
Posted in Poems and Stories, Raquel on Feb 17th, 2006 No Comments »
safety–
an unsheathed
sword
Posted in Raquel on Feb 16th, 2006 7 Comments »
Gabrielle and I have been discussing the description of our blog. According to the description this blog is about us not going to college. In actuality, this blog has been mostly about our lives chasing after children. But then, the reason we’re here chasing children is we think this is a better training for the [...]
Posted in Rants & Rambles, Raquel on Feb 15th, 2006 No Comments »
I just read Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card. Once again, Gabrielle was right–I did enjoy it, and it was a harsh book. The main character is a little boy named Ender, who is being trained as a soldier. Because he has the best potential to be the commander they desperately need, his training is [...]
Posted in Life, Children and Dishes, Raquel on Feb 15th, 2006 No Comments »
Theresa and Moriah left this morning on Moriah’s special tenth birthday trip to St. Louis. The first thing that strikes me about this is that four is such a small number of children to deal with. Two years ago I would have been on edge trying to keep everything under control, wondering if I could [...]
Posted in Dinner at Lansberry's, Gabrielle, Real Life Quotes on Feb 15th, 2006 No Comments »
“After I drain the blood out of it you can play with it.”
“If it were fixed it wouldn’t be leaking…blood.”
“You still have…blood on your hands.”
“I think she bought the one I thought I had.”