May 16, 2009

Farewell, Auntie Betty

We said good-bye to my Auntie Betty today. I was fortunate to be given the opportunity to write something for her and share it with friends and family.I’ll admit that it was hard for me to write something for my Auntie Betty. She was such a unique person, so different from anyone else I’ve ever known…how do you capture that sort of personality in words? I dug back through my memories and realized that knowing Betty was something of an educational experience. No, really. Bear with me here.There are a few things I’ve learned from my Auntie, and I’d like to share them with you today:

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May 12, 2009

MOTDs and Shoes

Lately, I’ve been dreading picking Zozer up from school. It’s not that I don’t want to see her…I really do and my heart still flips over when she sees me, lights up, and comes barrelling across the playground to hug me.

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April 29, 2009

Being Zoe’d

M and I, quite frequently, find things in places they ought not be, or find that we’re missing items altogether. We’ve discovered that we live with a little sprite who moves things around according to her whim, and therefore we’ve named those occurrances as “being Zoe’d.”

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April 29, 2009

I heart econ

A revelation this morning. I love economics. I realize this makes me sound like a big, giant uber-nerd, but I don’t care. It’s fascinating and I love it.

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April 28, 2009

Out of the mouth of Zoe

This morning, upon learning that her afternoon snack today is trail mix and milk, she looked at me very seriously with a furrowed brow. “Mommy, my trail mix at school has two different kinds of smarshsmallows.” She held up her thumb, “Big ones,” and then stuck out her index finger, “and little ones.”

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April 25, 2009

I’m small format and I like it

A local photographer gave a presentation at a gallery this evening. I’ve followed his work for quite some time, and received an e-mail invitation to the event. I wanted to go for a few reasons, including seeing his work again and meeting the photographer himself. Mostly, though, his invitation to “look at the ground glass of my large format camera and see what it’s like” was the kicker.

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April 23, 2009

Repurpleated

See what I did there? Just made up a new word. Repurpleated. The definition of this word is: having your stylist dump more purple in your hair because it faded out to a chalky, funky lilac that was absolutely hideous.

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