A few years back, I was looking at the Seeds of Change seed catalog, choosing seeds for the following year. I was looking at the perennial flower seed section, out of deference to Ali’s perennial preference, and was surprised to find a sunflower listed there. Maximillian sunflowers (Helianthus Maximilianii), the catalog promised, come back in …
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New neighbor
SourceURL:file://localhost/Users/siobhanwilde/Documents/cigdem.doc Finding a new apartment is one of my least favorite things to do. It just brings back visions of all of those horrible, horrible tiny smelly flats that I would find myself standing in, with a real estate agent intoning that this was the last apartment available on the planet Earth, so I had …
11 pm 11/9/11
I don't know much about palm reading, but I have noticed that my life line is about a third the size of anyone else's that I've seen. This used to make me nervous, and then I read somewhere that this can mean that one's path in life is not certain. I like the thought of …
Summer’s end
It happens gradually, of course, but it is in brief moments that I notice the changing seasons. Driving home yesterday evening, with the windows rolled down, I felt the mild air and enjoyed the mellow light and realized summer was ending. Baki had been swimming and he spun in the water, his hands trailing. I …
In the deep end
I remember seeing a parenting book with a title along the lines of "I was a great mom until I had kids". It is so true that the lofty ideals of who we want to be as parents often do not stand up so well to the messy reality of actually having children. And of …
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