Posted in Not Much of Anything, Poems and Stories, Raquel on Aug 16th, 2006 No Comments »
 I rarely trace back my thought processes to see how they started, but this time I did and it amused me.
 It all started with a rotten spot in a potato I was chopping. Naturally I checked the piece next to to see if that had a rotten spot too. Oddly enough, I must have sliced [...]
Posted in All About Words, Projects, Raquel on Aug 16th, 2006 1 Comment »
 It all started with a simple haiku-related question over dinner with the Ben-Ezra’s one night. Seth said, “Look up renga”, so I did and–once I figured out how to spell it–I was off on wild crazy renga adventure. Or something like that.
 Renga is japanese poetry written by a series of people. I thought this was [...]
Posted in Gabrielle, Life, Children and Dishes on Aug 14th, 2006 2 Comments »
Well, folks, an addition has been made to the Ben-Ezra household. No, Crystal is not pregnant. We are now dog-sitting with the option to buy.
For now her name is Angel. I didn’t name her and she knows this name so we might not change it much as I would like to. We have tried the [...]
Posted in Gabrielle, Life, Children and Dishes on Aug 14th, 2006 No Comments »
Today was very trying so far. Not actually difficult, but very trying. I can feel the grumblings inside of me so instead of writing about what was wrong with my day I will once again regale y’all with what I actually remembered to be thankful for today. ÂÂ
I thank God for washing machines, dryers and [...]
Posted in Raquel on Aug 10th, 2006 2 Comments »
This is not a blog post I really want to write, but it has to be written, and I’m the one who should do it.
My courtship with Jeremy has ended. I’m not going into the reasons here, but we both saw that the courtship wasn’t progressing as we thought it should, and [...]
Posted in Gabrielle, Life, Children and Dishes on Aug 9th, 2006 No Comments »
I thank God for the rain, the curtains Crystal hung, my left-over lasagna and folding laundry. I thank God for radio alarm clocks, coffee, my quilt and warm water. I thank God for forks, my left-over lasagna, good books, Noah’s “Ta-Da!” and my special mug. For all these things, Lord, I give You thanks. Amen.
Posted in Gabrielle, Life, Children and Dishes on Aug 5th, 2006 2 Comments »
Well, folks, Raquel and I have hereby decided that life is far too full and that we are running away to Fiji. If you need us please don’t call. There has been too much needing of recent days.
See, first there was this move. We moved in here and it was good, but we hadn’t had [...]
Posted in Friends & Family, Life, Children and Dishes, Raquel on Aug 4th, 2006 1 Comment »
 Yes, I know Gabrielle already told you about the move. It was long, it was hot, I had a sore foot. I could just leave it at that and talk about how lovely it is that the Ben-Ezra’s live practically next door. But what kind of story would that make?
Prologue: Step back in your [...]
Posted in Gabrielle, Life, Children and Dishes on Aug 1st, 2006 1 Comment »
Technically Sunday was our first day in the Apartments on North Orange, but it was a Sunday and Sundays don’t work like ordinary days around here so it doesn’t really count. So then I could point to yesterday as our first ordinary day in the Apartments, but Crystal was grocery shopping and we threw [...]
Posted in Gabrielle, Life, Children and Dishes on Aug 1st, 2006 No Comments »
This move was a lot of fun. We spread it out over the three hottest days of the summer to date and we were somewhat short-handed. Yay.
The move was scheduled for Saturday though we actually started moving on Thursday. Seth and I took all the seats out of our van and were usually surprised at [...]