Echobaby

Frost coined a new word this morning - overbeezing .  Its used to describe the behavior when a dog leaps on a reclining person and goes craz...

Wren is such a worry-wort.  This evening, as I bent to kiss him goodnight he whimpered and moaned. "What's wrong?"  I asked ...

We are having 3 days of fake spring in Seattle and Wren continues to have a sore throat. This morning I am taking him to the after-hours c...

Wren woke early this morning and called out "Mom, mom?" "Yeeees" I called back, from bed. "Mom"  he called...

This morning I am googling "how reseat toilet".   The toilet in our 'family' bathroom has started leaking blue water onto ...

Its garbage day, the day I wake to the sound of heaving and grinding of gears drifting and receding through the sound of rain.   The noise a...

A shrine in the forest at Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Yesterday, I returned from a 72 hour silent-retreat in a snowy forest center nea...

... just this once, I want to. I had this dream last night that I visited a township in South Africa.   It was a shanty-town and there wer...

As I sat down to write this post both boys burst into the office drowning out the hum of the heater and the quietly brutal cries of Josh...

I need to enhance my vocabulary for snow.   SNOW doesn't really do justice to the nuances of white stuff that we've enjoyed in Sea...