Jan 11, 2013

My daughter’s black eye (see yesterday’s post) gives her a smoky Joan Jett sort of look. Every time I look at her “I Love Rock ‘n’ Roll” goes through my head. I keep singing it to her and playing it for her in the hope that she’ll take the bait and start growling it out like the rock star that she is. It would be so awesome if I could even just get her to do the “OWWWW!” Although she steadfastly refuses to sing the song, she consented to do some Joan Jett poses for her crazy mama:

I can’t even tell you how much I love this girl.

Peace, Love, and Joy

Dec 21, 2012

XOXOXOXO

See you again in 2013!

Dec 18, 2012

Christmas in Colonial Williamsburg

Once in a lifetime

Dec 13, 2012

When I got to work this morning, my colleagues and I decided that we would get together to somehow celebrate the remarkable, once-in-a-lifetime occasion of it being 12/12/12 at exactly 12:12.

The next thing I knew it was some really mundane time like 1:34. We’d missed the opportunity to notice, really notice this unrepeatable moment in time!

I was disappointed and mad at myself for forgetting to take note of the time, but when I thought about it, 12:12, 12/12/12 is really no more or less remarkable than this moment:

Or this moment:

Our lives are made up of unrepeatable moments in time, which is why I’m so obsessed with recording them in pictures. Sometimes you capture moments like these:

Or like these:

And this is why I feel compelled to torture my children with endless photo sessions:

Please don’t call social services on me. I’m capturing once-in-a-lifetime moments!

Fall Roundup, Part 2

Nov 29, 2012

I’m holding on tight to these last days of Autumn. I’ll miss the crisp weather tempered by the warm sun. I’ll miss the spectacular kaleidoscope of colors…

Here’s a link to a lovely autumnal poem: Fall, by Edward Hirsch at the poets.org website.

You can subscribe (for free) to The Academy of American Poets’ “Poem a Day” on the poets.org website to have a poem like this one sent to your email address every day.