Emily had the wonderful, and cheap, idea yesterday to have beans on toast for dinner. I had a can of baked beans in the cupboard, we had bread, and we have a toaster. Hooray for easy meals. I added mushy peas to the menu planning, and off we went. There was nothing authentic about the…
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Vocal Warmups
I used to do a lot of singing and a little bit of acting. I once played Court Royal, a black postal worker in the south, in a play called “The Great Goodness of Life”. Two days before our high school’s One Act Play Night debut, the graduate student assisting the drama teacher thought maybe…
Physiological Cuteness
Erin’s hand fell asleep for the first time tonight. As it started to wake up, she looked at her mom and wiggled her fingers, then looked back at her hand as though trying to stare into her own molecules. “It’s sprinkling,” she said. Totally adorkable.