Posted in Not Much of Anything, Raquel, Thoughts About Beauty on Mar 24th, 2006 2 Comments »
Do you ever turn on the stereo with the intention of listening to a specific song, and find yourself gripped by the music that comes on? It’s not what you wanted to listen to, and it doesn’t quite fit your mood, but it’s far too pretty to just turn off. This just happened to me [...]
Posted in Gabrielle, Life, Children and Dishes on Mar 24th, 2006 No Comments »
Today Arianna is turning eight. Happy Birthday, Nanna!
Posted in Gabrielle, Life, Children and Dishes on Mar 23rd, 2006 1 Comment »
Last Sunday Seth, the kids and I broke the futon we used for a sofa. It had been going for a while and this was the final straw. Something inside snapped, we heard a loud crack and that was that. So now we needed a new something-long-to-sit-on. A brand new sofa would be too expensive [...]
Posted in Life, Children and Dishes, Raquel on Mar 23rd, 2006 2 Comments »
I hope you all figured out that we returned from our travels safely. It seems I never got around to mentioning it, as we got home and real life immediately came on full force with all it’s distractions. There are several blog posts that I’m thinking about writing. I haven’t forgotten about posting my version [...]
Posted in Gabrielle, Rants & Rambles on Mar 22nd, 2006 6 Comments »
Okay so an off-hand comment in a blog post has turned into my sister bugging me about writing it up as a post. Fine, Adiel, here goes. A couple of years ago the best show ever to air on Fox was on Fox. I know that saying this was the best show on Fox really [...]
Posted in Raquel, Real Life Quotes on Mar 22nd, 2006 No Comments »
“Drink from the harp and we’ll be fine.”
“After three beers and a whiskey I don’t think I’ll be juggling any eggs.
” “You didn’t do the thing where you grabbed the upside-down crown and your clothes fell off, did you?”
Posted in Poems and Stories, Raquel on Mar 21st, 2006 3 Comments »
Here is the corollary to Gabrielle’s “Dinner with the Lansberries” series of posts.
After supper the children run
upstairs to play with everyone.
For them there is no greater fun,
the bluest sky and warmest sun,
could never make a day so bright
as “My friends came over to play tonight.”
The grown-ups sit below and say,
“What a relief they’ve [...]
Posted in Gabrielle, Not Much of Anything on Mar 21st, 2006 No Comments »
Big doings are happening at the Ben-Ezra house. Noah has started potty-training. Justice has started solids. And I made a replacement for the Ugliest Shelves. That’s right, I actually replaced the Ugliest Shelves. It was a tough decision. I knew that all of my readers would be heart-broken, but on the other hand a work [...]
Posted in Dinner at Lansberry's, Gabrielle on Mar 21st, 2006 4 Comments »
Last night we ate dinner at the Lansberry’s. We have assimilated another into our midst and it was his not-birthday party. We sang, we ate, we chattered. We stayed far too late and discussed whether the ceiling was on Raquel’s side or Seth’s. I almost hit James with the plastic cork from a non-alcoholic champange [...]
Posted in Poems and Stories, Raquel on Mar 15th, 2006 No Comments »
imaginary worlds
beckon me
through the mist