May 21, 2017 | Uncategorized
—From EF— If truth be told . . . If you google this, you’ll either be directed to a popular memoir or a TV series. In popular terms, I guess that’s just about right. But for me, the significant thing is the “if.” When I was little, that “if” was a walloping big...
May 14, 2017 | Uncategorized
—From EF— We’re gonna get kittens, soon. Our only cats have been ferals, ever since Conrad discovered in 1968 that he had a pretty severe cat allergy. We’d treated ourselves to a pair of (unrelated) Siamese kittens once we’d settled into our house in Columbia, SC. We...
May 7, 2017 | Uncategorized
—From EF— When we wrote our memoir, something emerged from looking at the long span of time. Lo and behold, cycles surfaced, a recurring meme of focusing intently on a desired life goal, working effectively to actualize it, then finding after about seven years that we...
Apr 30, 2017 | Uncategorized
—From EF— A lovely day today, our Sabbath—warm, sunny, available. We took our biweekly picnic to the ocean, braving the brisk wind but determined to sit outside on the bluff, enjoying it all the more because it wasn’t the blithely easy thing it will be a little later...
Apr 24, 2017 | Uncategorized
—From EF— We have been blessed with a wet juicy rainy season, and the weeds have profused (is that a word?), i.e., there’s a whole helluva lot of them and they’re BIG. The ground is still moist, so yanking works for the time being, producing a good satisfying upper...
Apr 18, 2017 | Uncategorized
—From EF— We’ve been documenting our theatre productions on video for a long time, at least thirty-five years. Eventually our theatre was able to upgrade our equipment and we got ourselves a new SVHS camcorder, a significant bump in quality from the plain old VHS...
Apr 9, 2017 | Uncategorized
—From EF— The week of the Daughter. Once a year, Johanna comes here. Once a year, we go there. Preparing the bedroom: years ago, I made special frames for twin beds, to be used stacked or side-by-side as a king bed. Week before last, we had Moshe and Beate as house...
Apr 2, 2017 | Uncategorized
—From EF— Tomorrow, our daughter Johanna arrives from Italy for a ten-day visit divided between Sebastopol and San Francisco. This is an annual delight, an absolute affirmation of spring. Come fall, we reverse the direction and go to spend time in her beautiful...
Mar 27, 2017 | Uncategorized
—From EF— I had occasion recently to think about mothering, and I suddenly zeroed in on the similarity/difference between Conrad’s mom and mine. This may become a book project, but at the moment its energy is flowing in a very personal channel. I had a very painful...
Mar 20, 2017 | Uncategorized
—From EF— I took time for a short solo journey, an action that we have tried to cultivate for each of us every now and again. After all, when you live in each other’s pockets just about 24/7, it’s not a bad idea to reintroduce self to self. On Saturday morning I took...
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