Elsewhere

 

~It's my turn at Segullah today so feel free to click on over if you're so inclined.

~I've also been collecting some lovely images that have made me happy lately (like this one) over at gather. 

~I didn't make it on the advent calendar bandwagon this year but I'm planning a fun 12 Days of Christmas using Tara's Bossy Elf idea, starting Monday.  Genius idea, right up my kids' alley. Her bossy elf is named Bernard. What should ours be named? Clevis? Or maybe Clarence, the bossy Angel who finally got his wings?

~I watched Little Women over the sick weekend. Although it's not an outright Christmas movie, it definitely gave me a Christmas oomph. You should watch it (just channeling the bossy elf, is all).

~Today was the last class of the semester for the course I helped teach. Good news! I went all semester without a parking ticket (and--shhh--without buying a parking pass, either). I feel oddly entitled to spend the savings.

Well, bully for you

 I'm sounding off about bullying over at Segullah today. It's something I've been thinking quite a bit about lately but it makes me kind of nervous to open myself up to all those comments from strangers.

In separate but related sentiments, a hole in the ground looks kind of cozy for fall, doesn't it?

This is just to say

Okay, couldn't resist that. I love that poem, love Matthew MacFadyen for that matter.

  

. . .

 

So (with apologies to William Carlos Williams):

This is just to say 

I am not gone or sad or done or quit.

I have posted the words

(which were in my mind, last week)

elsewhere.

Forgive me.

They were reruns

And might be familiar.

...

 

This is also just to say

Sam got his braces off

Louie got a regrettable haircut along with a cut paw

& is going on 5 trips to the vet

& wearing a cone of shame and plastic boot to go out

(poor puppy)

The sun is out

the rains and floods are lifting (10 inches of rain!).

Laundry is done and folded on the window seat.

Revisions on my QP are underway

I'm prepping for a guest lecture this week

at BU School of Public Health

Maddy was just in her school's drama night

Tonight Sam has a chorus concert

Tonight there are artichokes and new potatoes and peas

and rice pilaf for dinner

The clocks have sprung forward

Spring, you are welcome anytime.

 

 

Fail.

I'm over at Segullah today, writing about failure and its lessons.  Do stop by and even share a story, if you're so inclined.