A nice and calm Mother’s Day today…Offspring No. 2 and her significant other took me out to lunch after church. Then we, the mamas of four-legged fur babies went shopping for them. When I got home I took a few photos, played with the dogs, and wrote a final exam. It was an OK day.
Today was the final class day of this semester. By this time next week, final exams will be over and another academic year will have come to an end. I will have completed year twenty-five in the same teaching position. The music theory sequence is a minimum of four semesters of paired courses; it can be five if a student comes in needing to make up a deficiency. Of those five courses, I teach four of them, all but the…
Every now and then there is a photo challenge that goes around Facebook that challenges photographers to publish a nature photo a day for seven consecutive days. In addition to posting a photo, you also nominate someone else to take on the challenge as well. It is the 21st century incarnation of chain letters, but in the end you get to see lots of beautiful photographs. I was “nominated” to do this by someone back in February, but failed to…
It hurts my heart to admit that I have not written a single post here this year. I have been writing, just not here. One of the places where I do write almost daily is in my Morning Pages Journal. This is a discipline that I have had for many years, one that fuels me creatively, intellectually, and spiritually. Though this writing is not fit for public consumption, it is was inspires me to write in other places. Over the…
Yesterday was my 54th birthday. In the last week we have celebrated both of my daughters’ birthdays and Christmas. It goes without saying that this is a busy time in our family! Interestingly, all of the men in our family–husband, ex-husband, daughter’s boyfriend–all have summer birthdays, an they are months apart rather than days. Despite being packed in around Christmas, I have always made a point to keep my girls’ birthdays separate from Christmas and separate from each other. Everyone…
Christmas has come and gone. In Texas, at least for us, it was the calm before the storm. The Dallas area had devastating tornadoes last night, one of which contained 200 mph winds, that left eleven people dead and massive property damage that has not yet been fully assessed. Though the tornado sirens sounded for us and we had a plan for taking shelter, we never moved from our positions in front of the TV where we were watching the…
It was Thanksgiving when I last wrote and now we are only seven days away from Christmas. Over these last three weeks there were days that seemed to go on forever – mainly those where I was so tired that all I could think of was a nap; but for the most part, time has whizzed by. Until the last week, I wasn’t sure that I was going to get my act together for Christmas. There were moments over these…
Over the past few weeks there have been different lists of retailers going around on social media, A list of those retailers that will be open for shopping on Thanksgiving Day and another of those that will be closed. This information has been shared and shared and shared in an effort to get us to boycott those stores that believe that consumerism is more important than time spent with friends and loved ones. Until this morning, I was on board…
The past week seems to have flown by! Last weekend we were in Baltimore because I had a NOAH board meeting. Though it was a quick trip and I had little free time, I enjoyed the getaway and change of scenery. Weber and I did have a bit of time to wander around Baltimore’s Inner Harbor on Friday afternoon before my meeting began at 6. It was interesting to see another lightship. My dad was instrumental in restoring a similar…
When time is a day Rather than twenty-four hours, It’s measured in calm. KEB 11/11/15 Today’s prompt “Twilight”