It was a day I woke up early from vivid dreams. Vivid velvet dreams. The kind I want to cut out and paste into a scrapbook so I can remember them. Make pictures I could point to on a page. So I could say they were real. It was a day the children felt like […]
Entries from March 2004
Sunny and rainy at the same time
March 4th, 2004 · 1 Comment
Tags: journal
Chicks, eggs and blogs
March 4th, 2004 · 2 Comments
Lisa Williams has proposed a session session on women and blogging at Blogger Con II (I noted the cracked egg icon?!) and wrote a draft description with possible topics: Chick Blogs! A Roundtable on Women and Blogs This session will attempt to be the pajama-party of the blogosphere — a lively and welcoming exchange on […]
Tags: blog
Visible Woman
March 4th, 2004 · 1 Comment
For years I kept her parts collected in my closet. In the broken box I hid her bones, creamy white and hollow. She had organs: intestine and stomach, lungs beneath the ribs, all pink, never painted. I had her heart. I liked her skull with the jawbone that moved, the top that lifted off to […]
Tags: geek
Lessons from Lincoln’s life: marriage and education
March 4th, 2004 · 2 Comments
A friend loaned us Frances Cavanaugh’s Abe Lincoln Gets His Chance, historical fiction for children, and we had fun reading it together. The girls learned a lot and I did too. Two observations: 1) According to the book, Lincoln’s wife Mary Todd was a woman who declared she would marry “a man who will be […]
Tags: homeschool
Learning languages
March 4th, 2004 · 2 Comments
After I commented on Jay McCarthy’s intentions for learning languages , I was glad to learn that he is enjoying studying French, Spanish and Italian simultaneously through the Intercontinental Foreign Language Program at Harvard Square . I tried a class like this once and it didn’t work for me. All it did was leave me […]
Tags: blog
