Little House Guests

Little Guy (Newly Four) and his sister (she’s Much Bigger — Six!) are camped out in our TV/guestroom. They’re staying with us for four days (“Four Days,” he counted off on his fingers, “is a…

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Mess-Making or Art-Faking or “Just” Plain Child’s Play? A Peek in My Journal

 As I work on revising my draft, I’m finding a useful counterpoint in the messy play I allow myself in a field I come to with limited skills and lower expectations. To revise my writing…

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Monday Sketch and a HandKnit Hat

I’m working on a more sustained post — about how I’m feeling about our “new” home two-and-a-half years into the move — but for a quick Monday greeting, I offer you this little portrait I…

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Sketches and the Self: Portraits of Mater (and Nana. And Me.)

My daughter sketched this from a photo last year (As you begin reading, let me say that I know sometimes you don’t make it to the bottom of the post — but the bottom of…

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Sketch Journal — Day In The Life aka Nana and Granddad Get Schooled . . .

We’re on Day Three of our Four-Day Babysitting Gig, and it’s at least as rewarding and as exhausting as we’d anticipated. From anytime after 5 A.M. right through until 8:30-ish P.M., the weekend demanded pretty…

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