the haves and the have nots
Posted in Family, lessons, memories, motherhood, November, reality, reflections on Nov 5th, 2010
“Look at life through the windshield … not the rear-view mirror.” – B. Baggett.
Carla Delvex. Motherhood. Things in between.
Posted in Family, lessons, memories, motherhood, November, reality, reflections on Nov 5th, 2010
“Look at life through the windshield … not the rear-view mirror.” – B. Baggett.
Posted in Beijing, China, expectations, Food, Foodie, Melbourne, memories, Travel writing on Nov 3rd, 2010
The clipboard man summons us to the door. We shuffle in under the famous restaurant sign. Qan: meaning perfection, Ju: representing gathering without departing and De: the highest virtue. In combination the name implies a perfect union of moral excellence and benevolence.
Posted in Beijing, China, Food, Foodie, Melbourne, memories, Travel writing on Oct 31st, 2010
The essence of mathematics is not to make simple things complicated, but to make complicated things simple. ~S. Gudder subtraction
Posted in friends, lowlights, memories, private bits, reflections, women on May 26th, 2010
I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken– and I’d rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I […]
Of all our possessions, wisdom alone is immortal. – Isocrates 436 – 338 BC To my daughter I leave this memory. In grade six my best friend was Lesley. She was the school benchmark for all that was clever. And I never begrudged her that, because she was smart, super smart. The smartest girl in […]
Posted in 3/4's fiction, Challenge, memories, November, Writing on Nov 29th, 2009
Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it. Advice is a form of nostalgia. Dispensing it is a way of fishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the ugly parts and recycling it for more than it’s worth. – Mary Schmich When […]
Posted in Challenge, getting older, memories, November, Writing on Nov 17th, 2009
Enjoy your body. Use it every way you can. Don’t be afraid of it or of what other people think of it. It’s the greatest instrument you’ll ever own. – Mary Schmich Gawd remember how contorted we used to get in the back seat of your Cortina? Yeah…what was that colour called […]
Posted in heart, memories, November, sixteen, women, Writing on Nov 7th, 2009
Don’t be reckless with other people’s hearts. Don’t put up with people who are reckless with yours. -Mary Schmich My post today is double inspired by Mary and Dear Me Books. Dear sixteen year old Carla, Today all the wobbly Aunties are going to pinch your cheeks and cough up a lame old […]
Posted in daughter, eight years old, memories, November, Writing on Nov 6th, 2009
“Sing.” -Mary Schmich Today I am singing the praises of small cheats. Nothing serious of course. A shortcut when doing chores, a quick cheats recipe when cooking dinner, time saving measures when you are short on… time. And that brings me to my post today. Which is a cheat…because I officially did not write it today. But […]