Posted in I learned something new today, Life, Children and Dishes, Raquel on Jul 17th, 2006 No Comments »
Yes, I’m mixing metaphors in this post. It’s working for me though, so you’re just going to have to live with it.
Sometime between turning out my light last night and getting up this morning a phrase started percolating in my brain. I’m not sure where it came from, but it got stuck [...]
Posted in Quotes, Raquel on Jul 14th, 2006 No Comments »
 I cried when I heard this song. It’s almost a perfect fit for my life right now… except it feels more like I already got dragged over the side of the boat and I’m desperately trying to just keep my head above water, so of course I’m failing at everything else I should be doing.
 I [...]
Posted in Dinner at Lansberry's, Friends & Family, Gabrielle on Jul 14th, 2006 2 Comments »
Last night we hid from the heat and humidity in the blessedly air conditioned Lansberry dining room. We ate a meat and rice dish that I am pretty sure is called Meat and Rice Dish, applesauce and some of the best cooked carrots I have ever eaten. I never used to like cooked carrots, but [...]
Posted in Friends & Family, Life, Children and Dishes, Raquel on Jul 12th, 2006 6 Comments »
 I’ve been looking for something blogworthy for a couple of weeks now. I’ve had a lot of life going on, but most of it was not worth posting for various reasons. Life is feeling calmer this week. Still, I haven’t come up with any really interesting blog post beyond the ones that I’ve had half [...]
Posted in Friends & Family, Gabrielle, I learned something new today, Life, Children and Dishes, Not Much of Anything on Jul 12th, 2006 4 Comments »
Raquel and I were talking about community one day and we agreed that to have a community you all to have some things in common. Specifically, we were talking about shared media because often times when the Lansberry-Mutton-Ben-Ezra clan gets together we end up talking about movies or books or music. Raquel and I have [...]
Posted in Poems and Stories, Raquel on Jul 10th, 2006 2 Comments »
 One of the interesting parts of writing haiku is that they tend to become a lot more broad than I meant them to be. This one started out as a haiku about the Ben-Ezras moving to a new house; now it just sounds like life.
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time slips away– make a few last memories here while [...]
Posted in Gabrielle, Life, Children and Dishes, Not Much of Anything on Jul 10th, 2006 1 Comment »
I find it amazing what people take for granted. And, mind, I’m not talking about things like food, warmth, shelter. I’m talking about things like standing. This morning I woke up, rolled over several times and then stood up. This was not a big deal, there was no fanfare, no cheers. If I had asked [...]
Posted in Friends & Family, Gabrielle, Life, Children and Dishes on Jul 7th, 2006 1 Comment »
Well, I actually survived our trip. For a moment there I wasn’t sure I was going to. And that was when we had only been driving for about two hours on the way to Erie. There is far too much that went on this past week for me to write a blow-by-blow account, but as [...]
Posted in I learned something new today, Projects, Rants & Rambles, Raquel on Jul 1st, 2006 No Comments »
 I put together another Squidoo Lens, this time on Patternless Sewing.
 When I was twelve, a thirteen year old friend started teaching me to sew. We didn’t get very far because life got in the way, but we did make a nightgown in a way that very much appealed to me. She cut a rectangle [...]