This Week’s Theme: Cooked/ing Thanksgiving 2002 The table was set. I had just cooked Thanksgiving dinner and was about to serve it. photo hunt Thanks for reading “Colloquium”!
Appetizer
List 3 emotions you experienced this week.
Frustration, anger, elation.
In my experience, water aerobics are the best form of exercise.
Here are my reasons:
* Comfort ~~ I exercise strenuously and really sweat, but I don’t care. I just splash some water on my forehead and keep going. That’s the most important reason why water aerobics is the perfect form of exercise for me. I hate to sweat. Ever. Anywhere. For any reason.
My mother, Ethel, left this world on October 13, 2005, but she left her family long before that. She left us gradually, slowly inching further and further away until she finally retreated into her own little universe — a little corner of her own mind where we could no longer connect or interact with her. And eventually, I did something I never would have believed I could do: I wished that she would die.
This Week’s Theme: Five A Mother’s Day gift made for my mother at school when I was in grade five. Check out those glasses and that teased up hair! Was…
Appetizer Tell about a time when you had to be brave. I could spend the next several months writing about all the times in my life when courage has been…
Thirteen Thoughts About the Past Week1. Water aerobics classes finally moved outside. Hallelujah! The sun felt great.2. BigBob came home from the hospital yesterday.3. The doctor informed him that he…
Last week I explored the issue of maintaining balance in one’s life, pondering how anyone could possibly maintain multiple blogs while doing justice to their remaining responsibilities. I planned to…
Sunday Scribblings Prompt: Ocean love builds up the broken walland straightens the crooked pathlove keeps the stars in the firmamentand imposes rhythm on the ocean tideseach of us is created…
This Week’s Theme: Childhood Still one of my favorite photos of my boys. In this 1993 shot, Robert was 6 and Matthew was about 15 months old. photo hunt Thanks…
Appetizer Name something you would not want to own. A septic tank service company. Soup Describe your hair (texture, color, length, etc.). Current: Picture in the upper right. Next: Who…
1. “Which side is the appendix on?” That’s what BigBob asked me this morning about 10:45 a.m. At the time, I was unsure but told him, “I think it’s on…
I’m baffled. Stumped. I admit it. I like to visit blogs. I enjoy reading other folks’ writing because I learn from their observations, experiences, and insights. I love seeing the…
Sunday Scribblings Prompt: Wings “God has given you a spirit with wings on which to soar into the spacious firmament of Love and Freedom. Is it not pitiful than that…
This Week’s Theme: Rare The Waldorf Astoria Clock was executed by the Goldsmith Company of London for exhibition at the Chicago World’s Fair in 1893. It was purchased by the…
Appetizer How fast can you type? Lightning fast. The last time I was tested (many years ago), I clocked something like 150 wpm. My fingers are very limber from playing…
Thirteen Random Thoughts for This Thursday1. SpringSpring is here! Hurray! As I write this, it is 70 degrees here in beautiful, sunny Northern California. The temperature is headed up this…
I am rooted in reality. That is a double-edged sword.
There is a certain peace, security and self-confidence that comes with understanding and accepting how, where and why your life is anchored. Becoming rooted in who you are and are not, who you were and were not, what is and is not, what will and will not be, what is and is not possible, is empowering because it is no longer necessary to engage in the soul-searching, questioning and experimenting that characterizes our lives when we are in our 20’s, 30’s and, for some of us, even our 40’s.
By the time most of us achieve the milestone I did this past December, we have survived the traumas and confusion of young adulthood — the struggles of acquisition — and become rooted in a career, home, family, hobbies and all the other things that make us who we are.
I have had some collaborative experiences recently that have made me think anew about having one’s writing critiqued and edited, and how it can be a highly beneficial, albeit painful,…
This Week’s Theme: Steps I dug way back into the archives for this little gem! That’s me playing my clarinet and marching with the Lodi Senior Elementary School Band in…
Appetizer What is your favorite kind of bread? San Francisco sourdough. There’s nothing in this world like it. Soup When was the last time you bought a new pillow? One…
David Letterman used to do a regular bit on his old NBC show called “Brushes with Greatness” during which members of the audience would stand up and tell their story…
This week’s theme: Hobby The last rehearsal! On Tuesday, March 27, 2007, 110 musicians crammed into one of the ballrooms at the Sheraton Manhattan for one last rehearsal — one…
Appetizer When you were a child, which crayon color was your favorite? Yellow. Soup On a scale of 1 to 10 (with 10 being highest), how likely would you be…