deep sighs

good saturday am

1. Paint nails black (because I can).2. Eat leftover thirteenth birthday ice cream cake for breakfast (because I can).3. Blog (you got the pattern).

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steve martin and gregory hines

Ok, just this one more video and I swear I’ll stop. But it’s just sooooo goooood!! The Husband sent this link as a part of his “Make Her Think I’m the Greatest” program. (An awesome program, working quite well.)

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vespers are sweeter than matins

Emily Dickinson said that first, and she was right. The best part of my day yesterday was lying on my back on the heat-radiant end of a pier at Lake Johnson, alternately staring into the intense blue sky and nodding off briefly while the boys explored in a paddle boat. I always love the late [...]

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moldy peaches rock

(Go ahead and click play; it will play while loading.) I saw the movie Juno this weekend and fell in love with Moldy Peaches. Their fresh, unpolished, unspun attitude and lyrics feel perfect not only for the character of Juno, the pregnant 16 year old in the movie (Ellen Page, who plays Juno, recommended them [...]

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puffed cheese toasts from the monastery

I have this marvelous, crumbling and yellowed cookbook called From a Monastery Kitchen: a practical cookbook of vegetarian recipes for the four seasons complete from soups to desserts with breads. A great title, don’t you agree? The cookbook is compiled of Brother Victor Avila’s recipes, and is just crammed with little bits of wisdom, quotes, [...]

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It Sort of Defeats the Point

I know the Maker’s pants are waaaaay too big when I see he took them off for his bath (and left them on the bathroom floor) without ever unbuckling his belt.

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‘burb nest

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thanksgiving day hike

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digital false alarm

Last week I heard the First, age 12, discussing his YouTube video upload of “Runescape Ownage” (as in “Dude, I totally owned that level!”). I got really excited, thinking that one of the coming-of-age-in-the-new-millennium milestones had just been reached, and that he had finally learned not JUST how to record online gaming action with a [...]

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Slice of Life: The Perfect Saturday

For the first time in over a decade I have some Saturdays off. It’s astonishing how wonderful they are, assuming you have no intention of grocery shopping or cleaning bathrooms. Here’s what my fabulous Saturday looked like: 1. Sleep late 2. Join the Ice in the kitchen where he’s making a double batch of biscuits. [...]

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