This week, despite all of the distractions in my life right now, I did do a bit of writing. I wrote a short piece about my grandparents and shared it with my writing group. It was one of those unabashedly sentimental pieces that I frankly hate to read but since it was all true, I [...]
You may or may not have noticed that my posts haven’t had much to do with yoga recently. (I think those readers who follow me via ashtangi.net noticed, because my hits are down!) In this post, I will actually live up to the name Yogamum, and write about yoga practice. My yoga practice. Which I [...]
As I began writing this post, my mom, my husband and the kids were out at the movies watching Wall*E (or however you write it!) and I was wracked with guilt because I begged off in order to take some time to get organized, and do some writing. Okay, so I’m not really wracked with [...]
I skipped the fessing last Friday since I was traveling, and I should skip today as well since I’ve nothing to report! But I am dutifully fessing up to having done no writing and very little reading. Hope to be back on track next week.
I did read about a third of Dorothy Dunnett’s The Game [...]
Over at the Shutter Sisters blog, they feature love-themed photos on “Love Thursday.” I happened to take this shot today and thought it would fit in nicely:
Be sure to check out the link over there for photos by some amazing women who actually know their way around a camera, unlike me!
p.s. we made it home [...]
Today we scattered the last of my dad’s ashes in the wheatfield at my grandparents’ farm. They have both passed on, and no one lives in the old house, but my uncle still farms the land and my aunt promised to bring us some wheat from that corner of the field next year. It is [...]
The windmill by my uncle’s pond:
I don’t know why, but I like this duck a lot:
An airplane made out of license plates! Awesome!
Taken moments after I said, “Okay, but don’t get too wet”:
Yesterday was possibly the hardest day I’ve had since my dad died in March. We had a “celebration of life” service with our many relatives here in Kansas (at least 80 of my aunts, uncles and cousins). While it was difficult for me to revisit all of the emotions I’ve experienced in the past three [...]
…read a book about chickens:
…watch turtle races:
…hold a red-headed, pig-tailed baby:
…see your uncle hold a giant snapping turtle in his bare hands:
…end your evening with your very own fireworks show:
