Light and Shadow, Winter and Spring

As you can see, we’re enjoying bright sunshine and blue skies here this weekend. We’re also enjoying the way this light plays on the almost-completed addition to our garden and imagining dining under a cover…

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Dressing for Comfort, with Bling! No Neutrals Here

Duchesse just posted some practical-yet-chic neutral dresses, and there’s no doubt a versatile background accomodates variety through accessories. The dress above clearly fails to exemplify such neutrality. Way too purple, for one thing, and then…

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A bit of down, a lot of Up, makin’ like Sisyphus but with way more joy

The weekend went fairly well — mom stayed on the waitlist so I didn’t drive her to chemo on Friday, nor did I get to take her wig-buying (in anticipation of the chemo’s predicted effects),…

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Down Days and Odd Dreams and Soldiering On

It turns out that mom now has to have chemo, followed by radiation, as the cancer has been a bit more aggressive/invasive than we’d hoped. However, she has good medical support and much support at…

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Derrida’s Delightful Difficulty — and other reading . . .

For my Literary Theory group (a reading group of colleagues from my department), I read Derrida’s essay, “Economimesis” over the past week in preparation for a visiting speaker’s talk Friday afternoon — very challenging and…

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