I lived in Oklahoma for 5 years, and failed at every flower I planted. Our porch planters would burn, our gardens would flood, our sunflowers would be eaten by locust. It wasn’t that it was impossible to keep living things alive, just that one actually had to tend them, and I couldn’t. I was too busy keeping […]
The Things That Make Up A Life (a goodbye to Oklahoma)
3-8-16 It’s been a hard two weeks. We’re moving west and leaving the military, and this whole transition has left me flailing emotionally. I feel as if I am losing touch with what anchors and as though I am flinging about for something to which I might secure. We’ve done a lot of transition in our […]
Transitions, Goodbyes
Goodbyes We’ve been in the preparation stage of exiting the army for about 8 months now, and here we are, finally coming down to the wire. All the decisions, all the prayers, all the worry and peace and questions. But here we are, and there’s no turning back. David has a few months left on […]
100 Year Old Chalkboard Lessons and Modern Waldorf Math Circles
I was totally entranced by this discovery of 98 year old chalkboards buried beneath newer chalkboards in an Oklahoma school. That the carpenters in 1917 hung new boards over the old ones without erasing the lessons is somewhat enchanting to me. Click over to the Washington Post article to see more images. In particular, […]
The Earth Is Alive
We have had two weeks of sickness around here, and just when I thought we were getting well, it came back to invade my lungs and Grace’s ears. No sleep. I am so, so, so, so tired. Nevertheless, yesterday dawned warm and sunny and in hopes of the car motion lulling Grace into a nap, I took the […]
Home (Oklahoma)
In Oklahoma there were no gutters on the eaves. The rain poured down the roofline and in sheets made deep trenches into the hard, red mud. The grass only sometimes grew over the trench, but when it did, we would forget the dip and twist our ankles as we stepped from the porch. The mud […]