I don’t get emails from my friends anymore. We went from one new technology to another one so quickly. Now everyone seems to be on Facebook or some other social meeting spot. Including me, of course. But now I’m starting to feel the communication shifting in a negative direction. Sound […]
Cookie, cookie, cookie starts with “c”
Ah, a chance to blog. And I’ve no words to spew forth. Simply due to the tiredness that comes from baking and decorating 40 sugar cookies. Yes, making cookies is tiring. There’s the rolling and chilling and cookie cutting and more rolling and more cooking cutting and baking and checking […]
Hellooooo, Harry!
I think I’m a 6-year-old boy disguised as a grown woman. When the Harry Potter Legos showed up on the shelves, Devin was thrilled. But I was too. We’re on Harry Potter 6 right now and it’s just so much fun to read those books together. Even though I’d already […]
He’s six, ya know
I shouldn’t be surprised when I ask him to pose with me and he does this, right?
Whose bright idea was it to go into the corn maze?
Oh, that’s right. It was mine! Next time? Slap me. 75-degree heat is not the most comfortable environment for tromping around between dried-out husks of corn in a 5-acre maze. It seemed like a lot of fun for the first 10 minutes or so. Until the sweat started running down […]
Ups and downs
Life has them, doesn’t it? I’ve been on more of a rollercoaster lately when it comes to my emotions. I prefer feeling a bit more steady about things, but I’ll accept that every day can’t be blue skies and butterflies. The skies are definitely blue today, though. I’m looking forward […]
Art in an hour
We’ll be going down for a much longer exploration of ArtPrize this weekend. But today was just so beautiful and I needed to register so I could get my votes in today. So I grabbed Dev and we scooted downtown for a lightning-fast perusal of the art. I had been […]
Isn’t it beautiful?
Why so proud of a pumpkin? Because we made this one in our very own garden! Never having grown pumpkins before, I stuck the little seedlings in several different spots and wasn’t prepared for the length of those curly vines. They wrapped themselves around everything in sight. And despite all […]
Wandering
Yesterday I drove out to Millennium Park, which I’d heard of many times, but never visited. I was looking for some of my colleagues who were supposed to be toiling away on a United Way project. I’d already criss-crossed GR snapping photos of the different groups participating. This was my […]
A boy and his carpet square
I volunteered at Festival of the Arts last year, which segued into volunteering for ArtPrize. I decided to repeat my efforts for both gigs this year and, luckily, Fred (who coordinates a lot of this stuff) was up for having a volunteer of the younger variety come along too. Last […]