My fancy purse keeps ripping my pants in the back pocket area.

instead of trying to balance the apple rings on the wire oven rack to dry, i decided to hang them on the wire rack, making room for many more (which is important because our tree has so many many apples) and it also looks cool.

staying up till 2 talking to drew (hey that rhymes!) made me groggy enough to try to cook oatmeal dry  (hey that rhymes too!) this morning but it was totally worth it.

went with theodore to get him sized for a rather simple outfit in a gigantic house of 4 stories packed end-to-end with fanciful costumes of all shapes and sizes, and a cubic yard of seemingly-forgotten shoes standing right outside the door.

Found this while talking about love.

working on making an oasis of creativity out of an old stable.

probably a type of therapy to write with a quill pen you made from a feather you found on a morning run with your middle child.

when i say time is flying i mean like "just started prepping for a christmas concert in september" fast.

theodore took himself completely alone to school this morning #fakehashtag #wheredidthetimego?

how shall a girl decide in the morning when she has illy and cuban coffee to choose between?

There was once a man from St. Hall who died in the spring in the fall / 'Twould be a sad thing if he died in the spring, but he didn't: he died in the fall.

I made 4 gigantic vegetable strudels full of funny things like kohlrabi and butternut squash and lovage for kindergarten lunch (17 kids) today and they were all devoured.

life tonight is tea with friend and homemade elder-flower liqueur and these make-em-nows-because-they-are-so-goods.

And because all good things come in threes, Theodore told me "you can't re-pop popcorn, just like you can't re-pop a balloon" and, well, he is so right.

In my 1930's unabridged edition of Lincoln Steffen's autobiography, where he deals with issues about wealth, power and political corruption in examples that are horrifyingly relevant today, I found tucked between the pages a new price-tag from a $985.00 piece of lingerie.

In Graz so far, I've gotten more gigs through Theodore than through any effort from myself.

The latest in childhood cutenesses is from Felix, after being corrected in his misunderstanding that it isn't "My Body Lies Over the Ocean" then asking "Is it a toy Bunny or a real Bunny?"

When asked why Henry wanted to set his alarm clock for the middle of the night instead of for the morning, he answered in the only logical way: "I already know when the morning is, but without an alarm I won't know when the middle of  the night is."

It feels weirder to "be gone" and "be back" at the same time than it did to feel "new" a year ago.

Welcome back to Austria, the land of delicious coffee and cake, and the delightful river run to burn it all off.

early morning run, and two different drivers rolled down their windows to talk to me: the one said: "hey, slow down! you're goin' too fast!" and the other said: "are you ok? do you need a ride anywhere?" which made me wonder if perhaps you could guess which driver was male or female.

The BBC made a movie out of the Eroica symphony, and it's quite cute.

i'm suffering from post-party depression.

Theodore and Henry's first wedding "gig" for their Aunt Tara and new Uncle ShawnZ was a curious combination of stressful and fantastically fun.

"My favorite thing is turning off the lights in the living room before bed," my husband said, "because it means we have our own space together."

The best bachelorette party in the word ends with flowers in everyone's hair at a contra dance waltzing in a giant circle around the bride-to-be.

after coming back from picking up the five big round rental tables for tara's wedding, and strapping them safely down into the trailer, brian and his dad had to leave again, to look for the four that somehow fell out in the half-mile driveway.

This might not be scientifically accurate, but my skin is the absolute happiest when it is soaking up the sunshine.

Looked through a multi-generation and an attic's-worth of books and discovered there's a lot of esoteric overlap between Brian's and my childhoods, even across time and space - THAT is the power of CLASSICS.

i do not work for the company or get any kickbacks for saying so, i just really truly think TAZA makes the best chocolate in the world.