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One Of The Family, by Frederick G. Cotman
Do you regularly share family mealtime together?
Time Health Magazine states:
"It's in the teenage years that this daily investment [of eating together] pays some of its biggest dividends.
Studies show that the more often families eat together, the less likely kids are to smoke, drink, do drugs, get depressed, develop eating disorders and consider suicide, and the more likely they are to do well in school, delay having sex, eat their vegetables, learn big words and know which fork to use.
Family mealtime is about civilizing children.
It's about teaching them to be a member of their culture."
Family Mealtime
The researchers found essentially that family mealtime gets better with practice; the less often a family eats together, the worse the experience is likely to be, the less healthy the food and the more meager the talk.
Also they say, the older that kids are, the more they may need this protected time together, but the less likely they are to get it. Busyness and parental self-interest seems to be the culprit.
Consider keeping family mealtime together a year-round resolution. You may be wanting to lose weight, get more sleep, or spend less, but sitting down to share a meal together gives far more lasting benefits.
Taking a meal together allows for talking over current events, praying together, and enjoying each other's presence. Memories are made at the table. No matter how simple the fare, it will keep on paying dividends well into the next generation.
There is something about a shared meal – not once in awhile but regularly, reliably – that anchors a family.
Certainly physical nourishment is important but when we share a meal together we share much more. We share our time. We slow down if for just a minute and show that we have time to take interest in others, to care for them, and open our hearts to them – to show them love.
Such communion acts as a kind of inoculation, protecting children's hearts from all manner of harm.
This is right where we are in our life.
Our young people are almost 19, 19, and 21. We are their confidants and coaches, and they desire our time.
I make sure the blog and other duties don't take over family mealtime.
So turn off the radio or the TV (better yet, get rid of the TV), pull up the chairs, pull out a simple pretty tablecloth, let an answering machine take the calls, and just see where this good habit will take you!
"Better a meal of vegetables where there is love than a fattened calf with hatred." ~Prov. 15: 17
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Counterproductive Minimum Wage Mandates• www.batr.org
Working for wages has never been the path for significant wealth. Most people are not equipped nor do they have the inclination to be engaged in business endeavors that will earn them a viable living. The reluctance that most workers bring to their occupation stems from their inability or unwillingness of properly understanding the related components that are essential in creating wealth. While many view work as a curse, the indispensable reconciliation for a practical and tolerable acceptance of universal plight is that no one is owed a living.In a world of Totalitarian Collectivism, the powers that control international economies, seek to pacify the laboring hordes with crumbs from substandard minimum wage mandates. The foolishness that guarantees minimal scale for hourly toil can and will never produce a prosperous society. The entire economic interdependent scheme to destroy the last vestiges of a bona fide "free market" economy is at the heart of minimum wage mandates.
Corporatists love higher minimum wage increases because small business is least equipped to absorb added costs in their operations. Corporatists are in the business of monopoly formation. Competition is a cardinal sin to the globalists. Any governmental imposition that creates added strain on the very viability of potential contenders, eagerly sought by crony capitalism, is destructive to labor.
Wall Street conglomerates intentionally hire few people, when compared to the total work force. The trend to slot part time positions with modest or no benefits or contract employees is the new model. This framework offers little opportunity for the unskilled or first time job seeker.
BalancePolitics.org offers reasons pro and con about minimum wage.
Abolish Minimum Wage Mandates
Keep Minimum Wage Mandates
1. The vast majority of economists believe the minimum wage law costs the economy thousands of jobs.2. Teenagers, workers in training, college students, interns, and part-time workers all have their options and opportunities limited by the minimum wage.
3. A low-paying job remains an entry point for those with few marketable skills.
4. Abolishing the minimum wage will allow businesses to achieve greater efficiency and lower prices.
5. When you force American companies to pay a certain wage, you increase the likelihood that those companies will outsource jobs to foreign workers, where labor is much cheaper.
6. Non-profit charitable organizations are hurt by the minimum wage.
7. The minimum wage can drive some small companies out of business.
8. A minimum wage gives businesses an additional incentive to mechanize duties previously held by humans.
9. Cost-of-living differences in various areas of the country make a universal minimum wage difficult to set.10. Elimination of the minimum wage would mean more citizens and fewer illegals would be hired for low-pay hourly jobs, leading to greater tax revenues and less incentive for illegal immigration.
11. The minimum wage creates a competitive advantage for foreign companies, providing yet another obstacle in the ability of American companies to compete globally.
12. The minimum wage law is just another example of government condescendingly controlling our actions and destroying personal choice. Citizens do have the ability to say no to a lower wage.
1. Adults who currently work for minimum wage are likely to lose jobs to teenagers who will work for much less.
2. Workers need a minimum amount of income from their work to survive and pay the bills.
3. Businesses have more power to abuse the labor market.
4. It forces businesses to share some of the vast wealth with the people that help produce it.
The motivation to impose minimum wage conditions for employment is to control the workforce. Helping the downtrodden is a myth or an outright lie. Functioning businesses must be able to balance their books to survive. Employing productive labor translates into paying a scale that benefits both the business and the worker. In the age of systemic social welfare, it is insulting to claim that minimum wage laws grow the economy or increases labor opportunities.Talk Of Liberty, in Abolish Minimum Wage makes the point:
"If you make minimum wage, most likely you are on government housing, food stamps, Medicaid, fuel assistance and all the other government goodies. My point is if this is the group you are worried about, you shouldn't. That is the point of this countries welfare system. This is where the Liberals want to have their cake and eat it to. Get rid of welfare and its massive costs if you want higher wage laws, get rid of welfare."

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text: Erlend Oye, a spectacle-wearing redhead from Bergen with a faint, fragile voice, is one of Norway's unlikeliest pop stars. When he was one half of indie band Kings of Convenience, his devastating gentleness made sense, but this style has never really gelled with the dance music he has made as the Whitest Boy Alive. This is his second album under that name, and one assumes that Oye fancies it as a simple, textured piece of modernist art. Timebomb's spacious guitars contain echoes of Television's Marquee Moon, while 1517 strips the riff from Daft Punk's Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger to its bare bones. Sadly, the effect is often not strikingly minimalist but blandly beige, at times recalling Jamiroquai's most soulless moments. Rules serves as a reminder that the line between simplicity and monotony remains perilously delicate.


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Adaptability in progress: an account
My presentation at the Business Agility conference in New York in February was a great opportunity to talk adaptability on a large scale. But it also yielded secondary tangible benefits.
Specifically, I had an opportunity to engage in meaningful conversations with some fellow travellers in the change field.
Sometimes I think I'm the one that gets the most from such one-on-one talks. But then I receive a message from a colleague that makes it clear my ideas have left an impression.
One such note that recently popped into my inbox described what can happen when a spark catches fire.
Here are some highlights….
"Here are some of the key work elements which I have been able to put in place since we met."
- Introduction of Work-Climates:
- I brought forward the concept of Work-Climates, to help with our transformation from mass production to lean/agile, as it fits very well in our situation. It has helped with teams/people who are active in changing our culture keep their motivation and drive.
- Making the customer part of the transformation:
- Validating with the customer is one of our biggest issues. Up until now, we have demonstrated epistemic arrogance for what the customer wants without even checking or validating with them. From our discussions, and your talks, I have been able to reposition how valuable this is.
- Moving from vertical metrics to horizontal metrics
- This concept had opened key individual's eyes to move away from "how I am doing" to "how is the customer doing". This is in line with "You get the behaviour you design for, or fail to design for". If we truly want to change our focus and include the customer throughout our process, then we must define and promote what is valuable to the customer.
There was more, but what was exciting to me was how this person took my ideas and made the process his own, shaping it to the realities of his workforce.
If you would like to talk to me about how to make your workforce into an adaptive dynamo, please contact me.


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A few days ago my friend JB put up a post with a picture of Jerry Lee Lewis on his excellent blog The Hits Just Keep On Comin' – a great blog that's part of my daily reading ritual. I left a comment on JB's post telling about the time I kinda sorta met The Killer (Jerry Lee's nickname), threatening to post some of my recollections on my own blog. Well, here it is.
It was at the Country Radio Seminar in Nashville, right around 1980 or so. The CRS, as it's known in the broadcasting biz, is the premier annual gathering for country music radio broadcasters and has been since back in the day, when it was called something like "the Country Music Disc Jockey Convention". In 1980 I was in management at WYTL-AM in Oshkosh, an extremely successful country station with a huge following.
Every year, the station's music director and I would attend the CRS. That picture at the top of this post is from Billboard Magazine in 1980. I was Operations Manager of the station at that time, but I had not yet begun my sales training at MidWest Family Sales University (that's what they called it) but as the most senior official of the radio station present at the CRS, I accepted the award on behalf of the station's outstanding sales department, which had sold the highest dollar value of ads of any medium market country station in the nation.
As usual, I digress.
Back to the Jerry Lee Lewis encounter. Here's a shot of Jerry Lee, who, as my friend JB said, uses all necessary body parts during a concert.
Quite a few of the Wisconsin country radio station programmers and execs almost always wound up on the same flight from O'Hare in Chicago to Nashville. The gang consisted of folks like Marty Green, from WAXX/WAYY in Eau Claire, Chuck Mokri and morning man Andy Witt from WTSO in Madison, me and another person or two from WYTL in Oshkosh, and Ned Hughes, owner of WYNE in Appleton, and assorted other Wisconsin radio folks. Every year Ned Hughes would pick up the bar tab for all the Wisconsin radio folks waiting to board what Ned called "The Margarita Flight to the CRS".
When we got to Nashville several of us crammed into a cab and headed to the big Hyatt Hotel in downtown Nashville, where the CRS was held at that time. A couple years later they moved the whole kit and caboodle to the huge Opryland complex, a few miles northeast of downtown Nashville. As we rolled up to the Hyatt, there was a long black limo in front of us. The door of the limo opened, and a bottle of Jack Daniel's fell out, followed by a gorgeous young blonde in a tiny black dress. Then Jerry Lee stepped out of the limo, followed by another gorgeous young thing about a third of Jerry Lee's age.
He looked back at our group, which was standing around the cab retrieving luggage from the trunk, and said "you boys here for the disc jockey convention?" We said we were. Jerry Lee said "welcome to Nashville, boys, and thanks for playing my songs on the radio!"
The years are all a blur now, 30-some years after the fact, but 1981 was another memorable year at the CRS. Our station, WYTL, made the Seminar's "Country Aircheck 1981" tape. WYTL was one of 12 stations all across the nation selected to have an aircheck included on a cassette which was distributed to every attendee. I still have that cassette and consider it an achievement higher than many of the numerous other awards WYTL won.
We'd been notified that our aircheck had been selected as one of the twelve best in the nation for 1981, and one of the nights we were at the CRS that year one of the Nashville record promotion guys who worked hard to get his label's songs played on WYTL, Gene Hughes, took us out for drinks. We went to some lounge after the day's seminar sessions and Gene picked up the tab. Payola was still very much alive in the 80's, although no one would ever admit it. Record company paid for a cruise for you and your wife? No problem. Just put a note in the station's FCC Public File acknowledging it, and hope the IRS never cross-references with the FCC.
Gene is the guy in the middle of the album picture above – after his recording and touring days with The Casinos, he went to work as a record promoter. There was a small band playing at the lounge we were at, and they recognized Gene and called him up to the bandstand to sing his signature song, "Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye". I don't know why, but that evening is still very clear in my memory, and Gene's voice was every bit as powerful that night in 1981 as it was when he recorded this top ten hit in 1967. (Listen to it here.)
Now, as advertised in the title of this post, the story about how I knocked Marie Osmond off her feet, quite literally. It was in a lounge at the Opryland complex, at the end of the day's sessions. I don't remember the year. Marie had several hits on the country charts, and like many of the biggest country music artists, she made sure to attend the CRS to rub elbows with the folks that played her music on their stations.
I was in a small group that had gathered in the lounge, consisting of Dick Clark (yes, that Dick Clark, who at that time owned several big country radio stations, including a very successful one in of all places New York City), John Parikhal, an up-and-coming research guru who was the marketing genius behind the success of several big-time big-city county music stations, and a few other fellows. There was a lot to be learned in these informal, impromptu gatherings of top-flight professionals, which is one of the many reasons attendance at the CRS was mandatory.
As the small group was talking shop, Dick Clark turned to me and said "you're from Wisconsin, right? So you ought to know a thing or two about beer. I've got a tab running at the bar – if you wouldn't mind, pick out a beer for me and get one for yourself". I don't remember what I selected, only that I was in a hurry to get back to the discussion. The bartender handed me the two bottles of beer and I turned quickly to get back to the group, and took a step in that direction, when suddenly - BAM! - and Marie Osmond was on the floor. I hadn't seen her come up to the bar (no doubt to get some ice water) and when I turned around and moved I knocked her literally off her feet.
I quickly set the beers back on the bar and reached down to take her hand and help her up. She was a completely good sport about the whole thing, made some joke about how we "had to stop meeting like this" after I apologized and introduced myself, and we had a short, pleasant conversation. And yes, she is just as beautiful in person as on TV and in her pictures.
When I went back to Dick Clark and the group, beers in hand, I was thankful they hadn't seen what had happened, and the conversation continued. (I do remember that Dick approved of my beer choice.) At the next year's CRS, Marie Osmond came up to me after one of the sessions, we had a laugh recalling the prior year's calamity, and she joked "I'll always remember you as the man who swept me off my feet."
In one of the other years at the CRS following the Marie Osmond incident, I managed to baptize Ronnie Milsap in beer. For those who don't follow county, Ronnie is a very talented singer and piano player. He's also blind. That's him, in the picture above. He was one of the biggest stars in country music at the time. It was a similar situation – in a lounge at the Opryland complex, following the afternoon sessions at the CRS. I had a tap beer in my hand and turned to go to a different part of the lounge, and managed to run right into Ronnie and spill a lot of my beer all over him.
I was mortified, but he said "I'm not sure but I think somebody just spilled a drink on me". Again, a hasty apology and introduction, and I guided him to the bar, where a bartender gave us a towel to help soak up the beer on Ronnie's shirt. He, too, was completely gracious about the mishap, although I was mortified - again.
The Country Radio Seminar is still going strong, and is still one of the most significant media gatherings of the year. Now, the Seminar is held in the new Omni Hotel on 5th Street in Nashville. It's attached to the Country Music Hall of Fame.


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"Almost every single family in that country (Iraq) has lost somebody, kidnapped or murdered. I've visited refugees in Jordan and Lebanon, and they're living on the edge in those places, really forgotten. We worked really hard to influence the administration to have an official response (to the persecution of religious minorities). Terrible things have happened to that population as a result of U.S. action. It wasn't the intent of the U.S. to do that, but the consequences nevertheless have fallen on these poor people. Therefore we have a moral responsibility to come to their assistance."
~The Rev. Dr. Keith Roderick, who co-chaired the Coalition to Save Iraqi Christians
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Our guest was the Rev. Dr. Keith Roderick. The new rector of St. Andrews Episcopal Church in Carbondale is also Secretary General of the Coalition for the Defense of Human Rights and comes to us from his most recent post as the representative for Christian Solidarity International in Washington, D.C. Father Roderick discussed the Darfur genocide and Sudanese Civil War, the state of religious minorities in the Middle East, and the connection between religious persecution and torture. He offered some guidelines for ways the average person can help, such as petitioning legislators to take a stand, writing to those imprisoned, providing care packages for internally displaced people, and sponsoring a church or family in affected areas. To learn more, contact Fr. Roderick at the Coalition for the Defense of Human Rights, email@example.com or email@example.com, (618) 364-7102.
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The dastardly attack on a Congress convoy by Maoists in Chhattisgarh must be condemned in the strongest possible terms. The attack proves that Maoists are threatening the idea of India.india Updated: May 27, 2013 01:50 IST
The dastardly attack on a Congress convoy by Maoists in Chhattisgarh must be condemned in the strongest possible terms. Around 100 Maoists first set off a powerful explosion to stop the convoy and then proceeded to gun down unarmed people who had stepped out of their cars to surrender. This speaks volumes about the ruthlessness of the Maoists. A number of Congressmen died in the action. When going to press, among those critically injured was also former central minister Vidya Charan Shukla. The bodies of kidnapped state Congress president Nand Kumar Patel and his son were found, along with the bodies of eight others, in the Jiram valley in Bastar on Sunday. Doubts about the Maoists being engaged in anything short of a civil war should now be laid to rest. This is no longer just a battle between the Maoists and the police and paramilitary forces. It is an all out war against the Republic of India. By attacking the political class in this manner the Maoists have made it clear that they will give no quarter and that the war will not stop until they are decimated.
However, the elimination of the Maoists has to be conducted in a sharp and focused manner. Great care needs to be taken that innocent civilians, largely poor tribals, are not harmed. Attention needs to be paid towards their welfare and that of their children. This would also ensure that the security forces get faster and more credible information from the ground. It is shocking that the security forces accompanying the convoy were quite obviously clueless about the presence of 100 Maoists in the area. The encounter brings into focus the fact that the Maoists are fighting as a united force while there is little or no coordination between the various state forces. Any attempt by the Centre to establish a proper central investigation and coordination agency is met with howls of protest from various state governments on the grounds that this infringes upon their jurisdiction. By now it should be clear that the Maoists are not battling to capture Chhattisgarh or Orissa or Jharkhand. They are fighting to take control of India.
Congress leader Mahendra Karma was among those killed in the encounter. Fiercely opposed to the Maoists, he was the founder of the controversial Salwa Judum in which locals armed by the state took on the Maoists. It was disbanded by an order of the Supreme Court that pronounced the local militia illegal and unconstitutional. It is clear that undemocratic methods cannot and should not be used in this battle. It is for the Maoists to use any and every means to further their cause. The Indian State cannot be-have the same way since they are fighting to defend liberty, equality and democracy. In short, they are defending the IDEA of India.
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This New Year yoga retreat in Lennox Head and Byron Bay, Australia, is a perfect opportunity to immerse yourself in pure and traditional yoga practices. You will spend a few days in a unique yoga retreat nestled in the beauty of the surrounding nature of this area offering quality time out, space to nurture the frazzled mind and nervous system, and most of all, shed the obligations of work without using up all of your holiday time.
The all-inclusive accommodation is at the peaceful abode of the Yoga White Lotus center. Elevated on the hills of Lennox Head, 15 minutes south of Byron Bay, this beautiful location overlooks the valley and expansive views of the coastline and natural parks. Amongst tranquil surrounds, in a space with natural light filtered through bamboos, it offers a natural and peaceful surrounding for the practice of yoga.
This luxurious sanctuary provides light-filled rooms in the twin share or dorm style shared for the maximum of up to three people. The rooms include a shared bathroom facility. During your stay, you can enjoy a rejuvenating dip in the divine mineral salt water pool and relax on the extensive balcony that wraps around the center to give a perfect view of the green valley below and the glorious ocean beyond. The open kitchen and dining area provide space for you to relax and enjoy the expansive views.
This weekend yoga retreat is offered for you to enjoy and fully immerse in the experience of yoga, meditation, wholesome food, and all the facets of yoga daily. During three days, you will live yoga as a lifestyle. You will receive instructions so that your yoga practice can continue at home.
You will have daily excursions to some of the most beautiful beaches and sacred sites in Byron Bay.
The weekend yoga retreat takes place in two of the most beautiful and spiritually uplifting parts of Australia, Byron Bay and Lennox Head. A mystical sacred land charged with uplifting spiritual vibrations used in the past by Aboriginals for rituals that still continue to draw an eclectic mix of modern day spiritual seekers. Accommodation, yoga classes, and workshops will take place at Yoga White Lotus center in Lennox Head. Daily excursions to some of the most beautiful and sacred spots in Byron Bay are usually a highlight of the retreats.
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As an important part of the yogic lifestyle, a yogic vegetarian diet also supports the yoga practice. The meals are specifically scheduled and prepared to support the body's natural rhythm for the digestion of food. The meals provide complete nutritional requirements for the healthy functioning of body and mind.
Prepared with loving awareness, the meals are always wholesome, unexpectedly tantalizing to the eyes, and especially the taste buds, it is full of flavor and color. The retreaters have found meal times to be particularly something to look forward to. Special dietary requirements are catered for.
Massage is available at additional costs.
Please book your flight to arrive at Sydney Airport (SYD). Transfer from and to this airport is available upon request.


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Monday, October 13, 2008
Good Mood
If you wake up in a good mood, your day will be productive. But very often we just cannot begin our morning in good mood and there are many reasons for that. For instance: when you go to bed being angry or, say, dissatisfied with something, you will wake up the same way. It takes too much time for you to find this or that clothes or some other necessary thing in the morning? Keep everything organized and you will have less stress in the morning. Some more reasons for waking up in a good mood are a comfortable bed, right temperature in your room and chilled-out atmosphere. These simple rules can make your day better and your mood more cheerful as your mood is one of the keys to success.
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We have all heard tales of the heroic young adventurer who picks up a magical sword from a time long forgotten and grows in power and acclaim alongside the weapon until both reach their true potential.
Within this product you will find 15 legendary weapons with an eastern or exotic flair. Designed by David Ross, these legendary weapons are designed to grow with you as you explore the mysterious east in an extended campaign path or with eastern themed characters.
No caravan to the east should be without some legendary treasure.
Review of \'\'Legendary V: Eastern and Exotic Weapons\'\' by Purple Duck Games.


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Sunday, June 24, 2007
This is why I work
Yes, I love my heli! It's like my new love, just can't get enough of it. I'll tinker with it every now and then when new ideas get into my head. Just can't stop upgrading it though, and it's really costing me. Anyhow, this baby rocks!
Ok! Work is blah blah blah, it's the only thing I'm doing this hols besides drooling over my heli.
My life is damn ____ ok, people my age are getting married(damn stupid, I know her though), going to the states, having exciting ICT back in camp, or trying to chiong for their IPPT. But I'm just growing fat everyday sitting at my desk doing all the boring stuff.
This is my desk at work! lol, it's quite spacious actually. And the seat is really goddamnit comfortable. I'm also always dreaming of being elsewhere while doing my work in that seat. It's that comfortable! I think it's those few hundred bucks for 1 seat kinda stuff. And yes, I do doze off midway while doing my work and when i wake up, the screen would be like '$124,90555555555555555555555555....' -forgot to lift off my finger before I went to lalaland! haha
Damn, I have nothing else to say about this hols.
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"In many cases, when a person says they'll pray for someone or that someone is in their prayers, 1) they don't, or 2) they do to make themselves feel as though they've contributed towards helping a cause." This person then goes on to call the act of praying for others as a selfish ego boost.
I have a problem with this. As a Christian, I am called to uplift others in prayers. The very act of telling others that you are praying for them, if you are sincere about it, shows to those whom you pray for that they are thought about. Sometimes, it is the only thing one can do. I can't often physically assist others through a troubling time, or be with someone going through surgery, but I can let them know I am thinking about them and lift prayers to God to guide them.
Now I know that not everyone follows there same spiritual path, but to claim that something as simple as offering a prayer up to some supreme being is an act of a selfish ego-boosting individual bothers me greatly. Yes, there are some who do it just to make themselves feel better, but I have met some very strong prayer warriors of many different walks of faith who do pray as a selfless act to aid in the well being of others.
And since I have chosen to walk the way of the Christian, I leave you with these words:
"Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, give thanks in all circumstances....." ~ 1 Thessalonians 5.16-18a (NRSV)


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Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Monday, March 30, 2009
D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say, when I look round at my children.
W. Somerset Maugham, 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. W. Somerset Maugham
Happy Birthday, dad. I love you. And all these girls love you, too.
More tomorrow. Thanks for reading.
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Sunday, March 29, 2009
Arriving back home, early evening
Some things you just can't do easily with a three-year-old in tow, and standing around at an art opening and talking to people is one of them.
I'd been encouraged by a friend to put a picture in a group photography exhibit, and last Sunday, at the last possible minute, I got myself together and submitted one.
It was a weird experience to be a part of this thing. I have never considered myself an artist, of any sort. Still don't.
When I dropped the piece off last week, I felt like someone else was moving around the world using my body. It felt like I didn't know myself, and even the words that came out of my mouth surprised me, as if I wasn't sure what was going to be said until I heard it along with everyone else. You may think I'm exaggerating, or being overly dramatic, but you have to remember, I don't get out much.
It was really, for lack of a better word, cool.
So, that's where we were this afternoon; at the opening reception for this show that I have a piece in.
We were coming home later than expected, as dusk was settling on top of everything, and I got a little panicky. I'm not so often out Sunday evening, not without the kids, not quite so far a drive away.
Driving down alongside the Hudson, I could see the sharp edges coming off everything by the minute, and I felt like a huge magnet was drawing me toward home. We talked briefly about one of us running out to the store after we got to the house, but I knew that we would never leave again, tonight.
When we pulled in the driveway, there was a mist in the air, and the light was incredible.
Soft, still, and oddly bright.
And guess what? The kids were fine. They said hi looking over their shoulders on their way over to the neighbors, and I had to call them back, settle them into the idea of Sunday night.
Once they were all cozied away in their rooms, we heard some terrific noise outside. Startled at the lightning. And. Hail.
Be careful what you wish for.
My picture, by the way, sold. The first one of the show. I don't know to whom, and it's a strange feeling to know that something so personal to me, a piece of my time and my thoughts and my life, is going to be taking up residence with someone completely unknown to me.
I know, blahblahblah...but remember: I don't get out much.
Mostly, I just like being home.
More tomorrow. Thanks for reading.
Labels: Art and Artists, Home, kids, Tara, thems my apples
Friday, March 27, 2009
Friday Happiness
Things are looking up, weather-wise. Yesterday, it was grey (which way do you spell gray? grey, gray...I love it both ways.)
Yesterday it was grey, and I noticed in that cloudy-bright greyness, colors really popped. Women's faces, and school buses lined up outside the Music Hall. Backpacks bumping off the hips of kids flowing down from the high school. Awnings and street signs. Colors popped.
I noticed that it was beautiful.
I am so ready for a good, old-fashioned rain, and last night we got a little taste of one. But I want thunder and lightning. I want soaking sheets falling, and wind gusting.
And then, afterward, I want the sun to come out, sheepishly at first. Then, full force. Then all those little sprouts and shoots will know it's safe for them to show themselves.
The lilac tree in our driveway has started to bud.
Friday, and I am also ready to cut the rest of my hair off. I'm over it. I'm going greyer by the minute. Or grayer. Take your pick.
Funny, it just now occurs to me, that my most favorite tea is, naturally, Earl Grey. Fits nicely.
We have an interview with Elizabeth Solomon, up at eyebuzz now. Tim conducted the interview with her, and when I read it, I was so impressed with both his questions, and her thoughtful, interesting, and honest answers.
I am much looking forward to our upcoming show with Jennifer Judd-McGee, and I have taken the interview reins from Tim, in what is a both a selfish and unprecedented move. It will be my first interview, and I look forward to posting it here, soon.
We have gotten so many amazing submissions for Public Bookstore. Thank you to everyone. This is a project we are excited about, and we are so encouraged by the response and the quality of the work. We'll keep you posted on the publication date, the opening reception, and the summer group show, which will exhibit some of the original work that is included in what, we hope, is the first in a series of collaborative art books.
Friday. And I hope to notice a few more things that are beautiful, throughout the weekend.
More tomorrow. Thanks for reading.
Labels: Art and Artists, Gallery, Not about her hair again, Tara, Tarrytown
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
How to buy time from a three-year-old:
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Snacks and Snacking
When their sisters were in fourth and fifth grade, we picked them up so religiously, two blocks away, as if the three of them were in danger of coming under sniper fire on their way home.
Now, the two next in line, ten and eleven, walk themselves home. Wave thank you (hopefully) to Georgia, the volleyball-player-turned-crossing-guard. Pet the black Lab at the house on the corner. Run through the hundred-yard wood that connects the block from school, to the block from home.
There is a cheeriness, a determination, about their responses when I ask "do you want me to pick you up?", that speaks volumes about the resiliency of second and third and sixth children.
They're o.k.
So, at least this year, these two are the first in line for afterschool snack.
I've already mentioned Emily's admirable desire for peanut butter on whole wheat English muffins. I could just stop there, now. Can you imagine a better snack?
But, she's pretty much the only one, for that.
I always have snack out and ready. (Well, truth be told, maybe not always, but usually.) Of course, fruit. I've been over that, before.
And then usually some sort of pretzels. I'm a huge pretzel fan. Tortilla chips and salsa. Dried cranberries, and maybe some walnuts, almonds, etc...
More often than not, something sweet, too. Cookies: either I've made some, or some FigNewmans, Newman's O's. Banana bread: because what is wrong with my kids that they have slowed down on the bananas? I mostly don't buy them anymore, because they usually go uneaten until they finally are not fit for anything but banana bread.
Popcorn. Lots of popcorn, because it's cheap, easy and popcorn.
We eat a lot of toast for snack, since I'm a crazy person with the No-Knead Bread. But you may have already surmised that.
But then, snack is also something different. It's 4:45 and we're waiting for Tim to come home and grill, or make pizza.
So, snack, then, is a bowl of cut up veggies, maybe even just a bag of baby-carrots poured out into a bowl, with a cup of ranch, a cup of vinaigrette (there are two distinct camps in the house, dressing wise.)
When I have fresh carrots with the tops on, and I scrub them and call out "who wants a big carrot?" you would be surprised at the enthusiasm. You'd have thunk I just offered Twizzlers. (Hi, Jo!)
In the winter, when it's dark at 4:30, and some girls are on their way out the door to gymnastics, or band practice...there is usually something warm;a little soup, some edamame, an omelet. Snack here can be supper. And supper is warm.
On summer days...well. Snack is all of the above, but also: ice pops. Now, you and I know exactly how easy it is to make an ice pop. And a good one, at that, with organic juice, or lemonade, or whatever. But thankfully, so far, the kids seem to think I've done something fabulous.
By the end of last summer I was making twenty ice pops at a time, to fill the demand. When you are handing out pink lemonade pops, you really don't want to be the one to say that you don't have enough for one more kid.
Snacks wear me out. It is the unexpected meal. The thing that rears it's head almost as soon as you have cleaned up from the last thing.
But, I find snack to be an easy way to give them something that they want, and still give them something that you want them to have.
More tomorrow. Thanks for reading.
Monday, March 23, 2009
Monday Morning Randomness
Did you know that I...
::know virtually every line of Stripes, but can not quote a single line of Ralph Waldo Emerson? I'm not boasting.
::was an English major in college. And an Art History minor. And an Asian Studies minor. And a Religion minor. I might even be forgetting one.
::have not been on a plane in seven years, but dream several times a week of being on a plane, and crashing.
::practically grew up in Kennedy Airport. Either on my way to various European cities with my parents, or waiting in the Pan Am Clipper Club for my dad to return from a business trip.
::have had two dogs, both named Sam, both black Labradors, and both, for a too-brief period, at the same time. At one point, the easiest way to tell them apart at a distance was that Sam-the-First had only three legs.
::am a perfectly capable and careful driver, but Tim always drives when we're together. This is a good thing, since I usually fall asleep when I'm in a car for any length of time.
::lived in Indianapolis, Indiana for about eighteen months, when I was young, with my family. I don't remember a lot about it, but have seen so many pictures and Super-8 movies, of the house, and the donkey, Wishbone, in the back yard, that I feel like they are my memories. I do remember looking out of the picture window in the front of the house, at a tornado coming across the sky.
::am a really good skier, and skater, and pretty good at baseball and basketball, but I loathe competitive sports. I could not, however, run a mile if I was being chased. This is not hyperbole.
::could not possibly go to bed with out all of the dishes being done, and everything being tidied up, and locked up, and ready for the morning. Except for that one night last summer, when I let it go.
::was a complete slob in my own room as a kid, except every once in a while I would clean it up and stage it like someone was going to come in and take pictures. Hmmm.
::worked for eleven years as an accountant, and was awful at it, despite a freaky proficiency for numbers. I have an untold depth of affection for the people I worked with for all of those years, and except for my best friend, whom I met at that job, I will most likely never speak to any of them again.
::sometimes go into my girls' room in the middle of the night, and lay down with them for a while, when I can't sleep.
::love Woody Allen movies, but not all of them. I could watch Annie Hall and Manhattan over and over again (and do). If Hannah and Her Sisters were cast with anyone other than Michael Caine, I would think it was the perfect movie. Sometimes I get despondent just thinking about how things could have been if only Alan Alda, for instance, played the Michael Caine role. Alan Alda? Come on. But Caine is that bad.
::am my own worst enemy.
::cry at the least of kindnesses from strangers. For instance, if you wave me on when I'm trying to make a left hand turn off of Broadway, I will most likely tear up for a second as I'm driving away.
::look forward to the day that my kids come back home from college to visit, and bring roommates and boyfriends and girlfriends.
::don't mind getting older, at all. But, I don't ever want to die. There's the rub.
More tomorrow. Thanks for reading.
Labels: Random (again), Tara
Friday, March 20, 2009
The View
Third Friday. Cooler than expected, and we had expected that this would be a night when people, fed up with being penned in, would come out.
Cool out, tonight, but people.came.out.
Thank you, to all of you who did. When the last of you had left, Tim said: "We had a party at eyebuzz tonight."
And we had. Met new people, and rediscovered people we've known forever.
This is what we had in mind, years ago, when we first dreamt of a place of our own, in a community we are a part of.
Tonight made us fall in love with Tarrytown, all over again.
Our view, tonight.
Thanks for reading.
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Labels: Art and Artists, Gallery, Tara, Tarrytown, The View
Friday Happiness::Spring; snow, then sun
But now I see them outside my window, on bikes, racing around in the cool sun. And little missy is tugging on my sleeve to get out there, too.
Spring, we're ready and waiting.
More tomorrow. Thanks for reading.
Labels: Friday Happiness, kids, Nature, Tara
Thursday, March 19, 2009
It's all good.
But I'm thinking, that what I really, really need, one of these days, is to go off on my own, if only for a few hours.
A girl can dream, can't she?
More tomorrow. Thanks for reading.
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Here we go
But briefly, adolescence clouded over sunny childhood. Nothing tragic. But painful, for one. And my throat dried out, my heart went out to her, and I thought: here we go.
This is new territory. I'm ready with band-aids, and stories, blankets and tea. Ready with hugs. But will I have what they need, when they need me most?
More tomorrow. Thanks for reading.
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Lunch is your good friend you don't see so much anymore, but still treat each other on your birthdays. Lunch is the quick bite to eat with your co-worker that runs into a second (ahem...) glass of wine. Lunch is three women who are having a "meeting" about the school fundraiser, but talk about everything but. Lunch is you and your mom, with the happiest three-year-old sitting between her two favorite women. Lunch is your husband stealing home with chocolate in a pink bag.
Lunches, are a whole other ball of wax.
Lunches are what need to be taken care of on top of everything else. Lunches are what you spend time thinking about, shopping for and preparing, with no guarantee or confidence that they are getting actually, you know, eaten. Lunches are what you buy all sorts of cute, eco-friendly paraphernalia for, only to have them left in a locker for weeks.on.end. Yuck.
Lunches are also the gesture that you make so that they feel loved. That someone at home thought about them and sent an extra sweet. Bought that special sort of roll that they like. Remembered that they like sprouts, but not lettuce. Took the time to write a little note, or draw a little picture. It's the only way we can send a bit of our t.l.c. with them for their six or so hours away from the nest. Send them off feeling like you've done all you can; now they're somebody else's
So, I make lunches.
I always make them the evening before. I have to. I can not imagine the extra task of putting together a lunchbox on a school morning. This way, I can take a little time to think it through, balance it out, get creative.
Because I have this theory about lunches; that while they won't eat anything weird, they are more likely going to eat something that's a little different. Novelty sells.
:: always at least one fruit; whole apples work, whole pears, not as well. Cut up kiwi, apple, cantaloupe. Or berries, whole. Strawberries get slimy if you cut them, but travel nicely, just stemmed. Apple sauce cups: awesome as a standby.
:: always some pretzels, with peanut butter, even. That, in and of itself, is practically lunch. Or tortilla chips and salsa. Rice crackers.
::Dry cereal or granola. Just plain. I bothered with a little box of milk for a while, until I learned it was routinely being given away.
:: always something else fresh: either carrots, celery, peppers...with dressing for some, hummus for some, tzatziki for others...plain vinegar for one, who shall remain nameless.
:: I've tried valiantly to send soup in a thermos, but it invariably either a) leaks out all over everything before or after lunch, or b) gets eaten successfully, but left to fester into a new kind of scary in the locker for a while before being returned.
I've decided they get enough soup at home.
:: Three of them love turkey with sprouts. Actually, it's sort of become turkeywithsprouts. Its own thing. Of course, then, there are still two of them who don't, so they get just turkey, no sandwich, and a pickle, please?
:: While we eat a lot of yogurt and cheese(except for one, who "doesn't like cheese," although she will eat pizza, lasagna, grilled cheese, and mac and cheese. Hi, Jo. I know you're reading this during Research Skills right now. Get back to work!) these items do not sell in a school lunch, for whatever mysterious reason.
:: And always a sweet. I may be a food tyrant. But I'm a generous tyrant. I'm not above a cookie. Or three. Or last night's brownies, wrapped in wax paper. I am completely not above bribing the kids in my life with food.
Here's the thing: I know that my kids may be the kids who are trading the organic fruit for Doritos. I suspect that some of them pull crumpled up dollar bills from their skinny jeans and buy a soft pretzel every day. I've already heard "Mom, everyone knows what I have for my lunch," and I hear the sound of crinkly wrappers in the back seat on the way home from downtown.
But this is what I can do. I can send them out the door with a healthy, thoughtful, organic, well-balanced lunch, with a silly little note and a recycled napkin. And hope for the best.
The best is that as they grow into their older selves, they will value good, fresh, food over nasty, processed, fast food. But mostly, they will recognize that healthy food is a choice they can make for themselves, and that my tyranny stemmed from love.
I've heard the groans. But the other night at dinner, I heard this:
In a discussion of the fabulousness of the brand new middle school cafeteria offerings, someone mentioned that there is a "top your own yogurt" station. And Callie said: "I would never eat cafeteria yogurt. I don't know where the cow's been."
Call her a budding food snob if you'd like, but she's really a nice girl. She's just a nice girl who wants to know where her food comes from.
For now, it comes from her Mom. That won't always be the case.
More tomorrow. Thanks for reading.
Monday, March 16, 2009
Monday Morning
Sunday, March 15, 2009
Have you ever been really scared?
We went for an aimless drive. We wandered and got lost, and ended up at a place we've been before. So far from home. What are the odds?
We walked to the lake, we walked over the falls, we stood on a dock which juts out over water.
I was really scared. I don't do well with heights. Nor water. Height over water equals scared.
I held her hand like crazy. I think she was picking up my scared. That's bad.
There was still ice on this lake. That's how far we had driven.
We got back safely, though. Of course. We are all extremely safe in our lives.
Tonight we watched a film made by a man who barely knew his famous father. He was on a journey to find out the truth. To try to get to know his father, his past, his self, through stories people might tell about this man.
It was wrenching for me, for I have a touch of this in my own life. I haven't talked about it here, but I did talk about it, here.
In the middle of this film was an aerial shot of Manhattan in the seventies, the Twin Towers fearlessly pointing the way towards the sky.
I found myself in quick, stinging tears.
There was a day that I was really scared. And, frankly, not a day has passed that I've truly felt the same.
Like height over water.
More tomorrow. Thanks for reading.
Labels: Life, Nature, Road Trips, Tara, Walking
Friday, March 13, 2009
Friday Happiness :: Thirteen things
:: matzoh with a smear of dark chocolate. Some look at such a concoction and ask "why"? I say, try it and you'll know.
::the enthusiasm our girls can muster for Pi Day.
::Bonnard at the Met. If I don't get to see this exhibit in the next five weeks, I would really like someone to just put me out of my misery.
::Green outside my window, under my feet, sprouting from branches above me. Green, and not a speck of dirty white stuff.
::Tonight, finally giving the ten-year-old the sleepover she's been waiting for. Wish me luck.
::Molly Wizenberg's book, which is warm, and quirky, and beautiful. And should explain the impulse behind my long-winded breakfast post. Lunch, Dinner, and Snacking to come soon.
::Tomorrow night, the opening reception for Elizabeth Solomon's show. It's a pleasure to have her work up on the walls, and I'm looking forward to seeing her again, and enjoying another fun night at the gallery.
::my husband, who in addition to being eminently lovable, remains ever supportive, ridiculously cute, and remembers to take out the garbage.
::design*sponge. I could just leave it there. And I know I've already confessed here to an addiction. But now I'm branching out from sneak peeks ,to city guides. What can be said about people who make me as impatient to revisit Providence, Rhode Island, as I am Paris?
::Jen 11. A collaborative, multi-venued exhibit featuring my most-favorite, Jennifer Judd-McGee (and ten other very talented Jennifers).
::John Legend. Isn't it wonderful when you find a random song you love, and then find out that everything else that artist does is just as good?
::Julie's kitchen. Which is featured at Apartment Therapy SF today. How cool is that? Incredibly appealing kitchen aside (and you should see the "writing house", or whatever she'll end up calling it, that her husband built for her), Julie is incredibly talented, funny and smart, and her writing always leaves me with something to think about.
::my parents. I say this with trepidation, as they will predictably respond with a chorus of "get on a plane to Florida," but...I really, really miss them.
Enjoy your Friday the Thirteenth. Happy weekending.
More tomorrow. Thanks for reading.
Thursday, March 12, 2009
Black shoes
Well, in my town there was always one woman in particular whom I saw everywhere. Mostly in our cars, picking up kids, or driving past one another through town.
One day this fall, in a pulmonologist's office on the other side of the county, this woman and I ended up sitting in the waiting room together! We waved, and nodded. Said "hi." Then I introduced myself. She got up and came and sat next to me. We talked about what she was knitting, where we got our hair cut (she had really cute, short hair), which schools our kids are in.
Then Lindsey's name was called, we said goodbye, and went in to the examining room.
I still see her every day in the car pick-up line at the middle school. For the first week or so, I would wave, try to catch her eye. She looked up once and nodded. But that was it. She never waved back, then or now.
I don't wave anymore, but I do occasionally look over as I drive up, to see if we make eye contact. Maybe she's just knitting.
There's another woman I met once, eight years ago, in a friend's kitchen. I see her occasionally, and I always wave and call her by name. At this point, I seem to take her by surprise. Often, I see her on her way out of Coffee Labs, trying to juggle her coffee and her keys, getting into her car as I drive by. She can't really wave back, but she always smiles and lifts her chin, as if to say "Oh, hi there!"
I wonder? Which is the norm?
More tomorrow. Thanks for reading.
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
1) on weekends, my father would stand at the peninsula in the middle of the huge kitchen and fry bacon on an avocado green electric griddle.
2) he was also an expert omelet-maker, flips and all. But...
3) he would use solidified bacon fat he stored in an old can in the fridge to make the omelets, which grossed me out immeasurably. And...
4) I ate copious amounts of Lender's Bagels.
I have such a clear picture of myself at the round oak table in that kitchen, wrapped up in a robe, eating distractedly and reading the paper. It's like I spent my whole life, right there.
Oh. Right.
I did.
I lived in that house, off and on, with my parents, and later, with out, for thirty five years.
Sometimes, when I wake up here, in this house, there is a split second before my eyes adjust that I think I am still there. I can still hear the sound the kitchen drawers made, the screech and slam of the basement door, and count the eleven stairs up to the second floor.
Now I live here, in this house, with many, many girls. You may imagine breakfast to be chaos and frenzy, but actually, I find everyone a bit subdued, mostly. And like everything else in our blended-family household, breakfast happens in shifts.
Some days, there are just five of us. Some days just three of us. Some days, eight. Those days, I try to stay in bed for as long as possible.
On school days when we have eight, there is usually a good deal of bagel toasting, toast eating, cinnamon toast making. And Emily, girl after my own heart, will have at anytime of day what I consider the perfect concoction: a whole wheat english muffin with peanut butter. Bless her.
Fruit is major in our house, morning, noon and night. So even on days when I need to skulk back to bed and let the storm blow over, I sneak downstairs and put out a bowl of cut up oranges, or cantaloupe and blueberries (amazing colors, together), or sliced grapefruit, or that mythical treat my girls always beg for: fruit salad. What, you may ask, is the difference between a bowl full of fruit and fruit salad? Well, I've asked this also, and it seems that if I spend an extra six minutes cutting things up small and mixing an extra one or two fruits in, it is transformed into fruit salad, which holds much glorious wonder for them. Go figure.
On weekends, Tim's thing is always french toast or pancakes. And he's great at it. At the gallery on Third Fridays or openings, we often have a big wooden bowl filled with sliced up french bread. We rarely go through it all, so we end up having these incredible mini-french toasts for the next couple of days.
I made the mistake, in the last three weeks, of learning to make pancakes, myself. Seriously, I had never done it before. It was always the other guy's job.
So, of course, it's not that tough, after all. And I now find myself making pancakes for weekday breakfasts more often than not. I failed miserably at one of the basic rules of domestic delegation. What the heck am I going to do next, go out and cut the grass?
Then, the storm blows over. Or, at least, blows over to another part of town, where the schools are located, and I am left with a three-year-old, a kitchen to clean, and the realization that I haven't eaten breakfast, yet.
I clean up. I set her up with something to do. And I cook for myself:
Goat cheese and arugula omelet
whisk together,
Two eggs
salt and pepper
T butter in a small pan, swirling to coat
Pour in eggs, pulling back edges to let the eggs spread thinly in the pan, 'til set.
Distribute on half,
1 oz. goat cheese
1/2 c arugula, spinach, even baby salad greens
Fold over on itself, and, if feeling courageous, flip and cook for a minute or two.
Otherwise, slide off the pan, and eat, sitting right there in the kitchen, reading a cookbook, or staring off into space. Tell three-year-old you'll be there in a minute, to add a room onto the block house for the cows.
No bacon fat required.
More tomorrow. Thanks for reading.
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Run ahead, lag behind, carry me.
A walk is never a linear progression with a three-year-old in tow. But I doubt we would stop and examine everything, even the mud, quite as much without her.
One thing I don't talk about here nearly as much as I think about: food. You may or may not have picked up on it, but I'm fairly obsessed. All across the spectrum: food sources, food shopping, cooking food, reading about food, the politics of food, looking at food and pictures of food. Eating food. And most of all, feeding the ones I care about.
{I'm going to interject here, that what I am not interested in, at all, is food science. By that I mean, someone telling me about how marination breaks down the whatsit in the meat, or the gluten content of such and such contradicts the starch in so in so. Bored by it. Don't care, I'll see it with my own eyes & taste it and figure it out. Leave me alone. Just saying.}
Some might say that my...ahem...fixation...on food is not healthy, as intense focus on one thing often is not. Of course, that's nonsense. It is, exactly, healthy. Everything else can wane: Social life? Pretty limited. Ability to travel widely and freely? Ditto. Energy and time to develop new hobbies? Working on it. But no. Disposable income? Fresh out.
But, around here? We eat. And well, if I may say so.
I thought I might tell you about it, a little. So tomorrow, I'm going to start in on breakfast tales, and then lunch, and then...well...you get the picture.
For now, I'm going to leave you with this:
At the end of the day, if I've fed them all well, if I've enjoyed a few moments myself where I've sat still, and savored a good something or other to eat, if they've said please and thank you, kissed me before running off, or, in the case of the man of the house, held my hand in between bites, and mmmm-ed and ahhh-ed; I'm pretty much pleased as punch.
More tomorrow. Thanks for reading.
Monday, March 9, 2009
Monday Morning :: How did that happen?
Pitch black. Ten-year-old sent back to the drawing board, getting-up-for-school-wise. I need to go wake her, I just wanted to say good morning.
I didn't evaporate over the weekend, just took a computer break. Had lots to say about Saturday's farmer's market, Saturday's dinner, Sunday's walk. Didn't we have a snow day a week ago? Nice pictures for The View, which never got posted. Incredible work coming in for Public Bookstore. Really beautiful mini-landscapes in the gallery, from Elizabeth Solomon. But never got around to posting.
I see this as a wee bit of progress. A crash blog-diet.
I'll be back, but have to go now. I don't hear a sound from upstairs.
More tomorrow. Thanks for reading.
Labels: Farm Market, Food, Home, Organic, Tara
Friday, March 6, 2009
Friday Happiness + a gratutious self-portrait
Labels: Blogs, Books, etc..., Food, Home, kids, Movies, Photography, Tara
Thursday, March 5, 2009
Thursday, quietly.
I really do want to be honest, and those who know me well are probably tired of me spewing my honesty out onto the carpet of our conversations, like a baby after too much breast milk. But the truth of it is, the blogworld allows us to only present a snapshot of our lives, and chosen ones, at that.
It is all the truth, but it is perhaps not the whole picture. I've shown you the flowers and the stove and the smiling children. The cat, but not the litterbox. (Actually, our cat goes outside, twelve months of the year, but you get my point.)
I've a really good picture of our laundry, but I've held back.
Anyway, I think what this here has given me, is a way to isolate the things in my world that make me pause and wonder, think about, and most of all, appreciate.
When I was little, I remember telling my dad about some obscure useless thing which escapes me now, but which elicited the most glowing compliment I have ever had in my life. He said: "You are just like me: you notice everything."
To this day I think that is all I yearn to do: notice everything.
I'll be back, and most likely not so quietly.
More tomorrow. Thanks for reading.
ps: that there in the picture is Callie running home, as quickly as she ran out. Pure bliss.
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Maybe the last of winter.
Maybe. And maybe I needed to be reminded how beautiful it is, even still.
Maybe, I needed to be driving home from errands with Anna, and look over at the fields of the Preserve. Notice the way the largest of bare-limbed trees made the most perfect shadow on the expanse of white.
Maybe, I needed to pull the car over and park awkwardly, pull Anna (unready, but willing) out of her car seat, and hike over the embankment to take a picture or two. Feel the crunch underfoot of what I'd been hoping to have seen the last of.
Maybe, I needed to lose my fingers to cold, one more time. Watch Anna throw herself upon the snow and wriggle around wildly, one more time. Notice the creek frozen, but moving underneath. Look up at the sky, marvel that it can be beach-day blue above all that winter.
Maybe, I just needed to get out there and "exchange some oxygen", as Tim might say.
It sure beat the heck out of the errands.
Maybe spring will come soon. Thanks for reading.
Labels: Done with winter?, Nature, Tara, Walking
Monday, March 2, 2009
Blooms in a snowstorm.
I made bread. I made steel-cut oatmeal. I made omelets. I made brownies. I made corn chowder. I made garlic toasts. I made a white bean gratin.
I made school lunches for tomorrow.
Maybe hope did get me through, a little bit.
More tomorrow. Thanks for reading.
Labels: Cooking, Done with winter, Home, kids, Tara
Sunday, March 1, 2009
Weekend dichotomy; and please no more snow
Labels: Done with winter, friends, Home, kids, Tara


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Some of Baltimore's most successful elementary schools face staff reductions next school year as the city school system shifts money to failing schools to comply with the federal No Child Left Behind Act.
While system officials say they must divert resources to schools where students are failing state tests, principals of successful schools say their pupils should not be victims of their own hard work. And state education officials say the system has enough money to adequately fund all its schools.
The city school board is scheduled to vote Tuesday on a budget proposed by schools chief Bonnie S. Copeland allocating an additional $22 million for reforms in failing schools, including fewer pupils per class.


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Over at www.myshericrafts.com it is design sister Sarah's turn to choose the challenge for us and she has come up with a cracker.."anything but a card for Easter".
For this I have made a little basket to house some naughty little eggs.
I picked up this basket in a local store wrapped a Easter ribbon around the lip and made a couple of bows. I covered the handle with orange gingham ribbon too. The bunny in the back I coloured using my Pro Markers picking up the colours of the foil on the eggs and the ribbon.
I added some lovely blooms to the mix too. Now I just have to wait for Easter so I can make a start!!
Now it is your turn to make something and link up.
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Material: plastic
Warning: Chocking Hazard - Small Parts - Suitable for ages 4 years and up.
Educational. Use for school projects or dioramas, perfect for imaginative play.
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Marcegaglia is the leading industrial group worldwide in the steel processing sector, with a turnover of more than 5 billion euro (2017). The group has operations worldwide with 6,500 employees, 60 sales offices and 21 steel plants, with 5.6 million tons of steel processed yearly, serving more than 15,000 customers.
Two power plants for Marcegaglia
The Marcegaglia plants in Gazoldo degli Ippoliti and Ravenna will be equipped with their own power plants: they will be gas-fired cogeneration plants, which will also produce thermal energy. The plants will be able to develop respectively 20 and 30 megawatts.
Marcegaglia at the International Automotive Business Meeting in Poland: advanced dedicated solutions for automotive
Marcegaglia, partner of choice for the automotive industry, attended the International Automotive Business Meeting (IABM) held in Sosnowie (Poland) on 27-28 November 2018, organized by the Chamber of Commerce and Italian Industry in Poland (CCIP) in collaboration with many other institutions.
Carbon steel tubes from pickled and galvanized strips: price list 2018 has been updated (Rev. 3_03-12-18)
Marcegaglia Carbon Steel has updated the price list for welded ERW tubes, round, square and rectangular from pickled and galvanized strips.
Marcegaglia Plates is the Italian company of the Marcegaglia group focused on heavy plates production with about 400,000 tons per years output.
"Protecting beauty creates value": Marcegaglia's support to FAI as Corporate Golden Donor also in 2019 is based on the corporate social responsibility, in order to promote the wellbeing of the community through the direct participation of its activities.
With a turnover of more than 4.98 billion euros in 2017 (3.99 in 2016), Marcegaglia confirms its position as the leading Italian group in steel sector in the annual Mediobanca ranking "The main Italian companies".
Marcegaglia Carbon Steel expands its carbon steel sheets range, adding two new grades and three new finishing to an already wide range of feasibility, to satisfy even the most demanding customers, confirming itself as a benchmark company in the metallurgical market.
During the celebrations of the 70th anniversary of Assofermet, Chairman and CEO Antonio Marcegaglia spoke at the round table entitled "European Steel and Distribution: work in progress", in particular about the trend of downstream integration.
During innovA, the convention of innovation for the steel industry held in Brescia from 20 to 22 September 2018, Chairman and CEO Antonio Marcegaglia presented the main applications of Industry 4.0 in the company.
During innovA, the convention of innovation for the steel industry held in Brescia, the Chairman and CEO Antonio Marcegaglia expressed the group's interest in a possible acquisition of Ast Terni.
Marcegaglia is pleased to announce a greater economic involvement in its partnership with Fondazione Palazzo Te, one of the jewels of the historical-artistic heritage of the Renaissance Mantua.
During innovA, the convention of innovation for the steel industry, held in Brescia from 20 to 22 September 2018, the Chairman and CEO Antonio Marcegaglia expressed his intention to create a "Marcegaglia Academy".
According to EN 4957 standard the following are special Hot Rolled steels suitable for forming, processing parts which shall be subject high hardness, wear resistance and/ or high toughness.
From 20 to 22 September 2018 "innovA", the convention of innovation for the steel industry, will be held at Brixia Forum in Brescia.
On Monday 3 September, on the first floor of Biblioteca Classense in Ravenna, Ala delle Arti will be inaugurated, after a series of delicate restoration and refurbishment works, anticipated about a year ago by the reopening of Sala del Mosaico.
The 22nd Festivaletteratura will take place from 5 to 9 September 2018 and will feature over 300 writers and artists, 204 numbered events and about a hundred uncounted events.
From Thursday, 5 July 2018, all the companies of Marcegaglia group no longer join Italian steel association Federacciai.
Marcegaglia renews its partnership with the important exhibition "Raccontiamoci le mafie", held in Gazoldo degli Ippoliti from 23 to 30 September.
Marcegaglia Group has sold the galvanized tube production plant in Munhall, Pennsylvania, to Synalloy Corp. subsidiary, Bristol Metals.
Marcegaglia Annual Report 2017 is online, in the Publications area of www.marcegaglia.com.
Marcegaglia group completed the acquisition of 80% of the capital of Novero Spa, a Turin-based company specializing in the production of cold-drawn tubes.
The new Marcegaglia official video channel, on line in English and Italian, shows the main group's key highlights through video and clips.
At the opening of TUBE 2018, the world's most important trade fair for the tube industry, Marcegaglia Carbon Steel has presented the new price list for welded ERW tubes, round, square and rectangular from hot rolled carbon steel black, pickled and "Sendzimir" galvanized.
Numbers, positioning, business culture, corporate organization, history and much more: the document, updated and reviewed in every part, is the company's business card, with a particular attention to the human capital, the group's independence, the development of industry 4.0 and the commitment to sustainability.
Faithful to the issues and the methods of dissemination, which characterize it among the international events, the Festival includes chamber music concerts that will be held in prestigious venues in Mantova, including Palazzo Ducale, Palazzo Te and Teatro Bibiena.
The exhibition was a great success: more than 71,500 trade visitors (compared to 69,500 in 2016) from 134 countries participated to the show over the five days to find out about industry innovations and conclude business deals.
Antonio Marcegaglia, interviewed by Siderweb, confirms his interest in deepening any new plants acquisitions
Interviewed by Siderweb, during Tube - Düsseldorf, Chairman Antonio Marcegaglia expressed his positive opinion about the possible acquisition of new industrial plants which will be probably dismissed by ArcelorMittal, complying with the European antitrust regulations.
At the opening of TUBE 2018, the world's most important trade fair for the tube industry, Marcegaglia Specialties presents the new price list for stainless steel welded tubes, box sections and round.
Three companies of Marcegaglia group have been awarded at the second regional edition of the "Premio Industria Felix - La Lombardia che compete", organized by Assolombarda in Milan.
The meeting entitled "The business model of Marcegaglia in a sector in strong evolution", organized by Ambrosetti Club, was held Gazoldo degli Ippoliti headquarters. Chairman Antonio Marcegaglia shared with the Club members the fundamental features and future strategies and challenges of the Group.
Like other companies operating in international markets, characterized by a dynamic capitalism, Marcegaglia managed to brush off the crisis, growing stronger. Chairman Antonio Marcegaglia said this in an interview with Euronews.
Marcegaglia's experience and know-how in flat steel products has led to the development of the new range of cold rolled steel for vitreous enamelling.
The presentation of sedApta Academy Industry 4.0, the innovative training school started by sedApta, a company active in the Technological Pole of Sestri Levante, was held on Tuesday 23rd January.
Interviewed by the online magazine Siderweb, Chairman Antonio Marcegaglia talked about the current steel industry context and the "Industrial plan for Italy of competences" proposal, signed by the Minister for Economic Development Carlo Calenda and Uil general secretary Marco Bentivogli.
After Marcegaglia Plates and Marcegaglia Specialties, Marcegaglia Carbon Steel S.p.A. also obtained the certification according to UNI CEI EN ISO 50001:2011 about energy for its multisite integrated management system.
In December 2017, Marcegaglia Specialties S.p.A. has obtained the certification according to UNI CEI EN ISO 50001:2011 about energy for its multisite integrated management system.
With the collaboration of Centro Inox, Marcegaglia Specialties supplies its stainless steel to the Formula SAE Official Team of the University of Rome "Tor Vergata", for the realization of an exhaust of the prototype of an open wheeled car.
As Christmas approaches, we would like to remind you that all the companies of the Marcegaglia group have adopted a Code of Ethics and an Organization and Management Model complying with Italian L.D. 231/2001 – Administrative liability of legal persons, companies and associations, including those without legal status. Both documents are available on our website: www.marcegaglia.com.
"Protecting beauty creates value": Marcegaglia's support to FAI, as Corporate Golden Donor, also for 2018, is based on the corporate social responsibility, in order to promote the wellbeing of the community through the direct participation of its activities.
The ninth edition of Bilanci d'Acciaio, the analysis conducted by Siderweb's Studies Office in collaboration with the University of Brescia, was presented in Milan on the afternoon of Thursday 9 November.
At Blechexpo 2017, the trade fair dedicated to sheet metal working technologies, Marcegaglia presents LASER SHARP®, the range of structural sheets for laser applications suitable for special finishes.
With more than 3.991 billion euros in turnover of the group Italian companies, Marcegaglia is the leading Italian company in steel sector in the annual Mediobanca ranking based on turnover in 2016 "The main Italian companies".
Marcegaglia Carbon Steel - Tube Division has released the new freight cost for welded ERW tubes, round, square and rectangular from hot rolled carbon steel black, pickled and "Sendzimir" galvanized.
Chairman Antonio Marcegaglia has talked about the current steel market trend with Siderweb magazine and concluded: "For next year we are ready to launch some further developments in terms of output."
Thanks to the obtained AEO certification, Marcegaglia is now able to speed up the import/export transaction procedures.
Chairman Antonio Marcegaglia spoke at the closing day of the EY Digital Summit 2017, entitled "Where innovation becomes experience, value, business" and held in Capri (Italy) from 4th to 6th October 2017.
Marcegaglia is expanding its range of carbon steel flat products, adding new grades to the current wide range of steels, able to satisfy even the most demanding customers, and confirming themselves as a benchmark company in the steel market.
The European Union Office for Intellectual Property has issued Marcegaglia the SHIMOCO® Trademark Registration Certificate.
Interviewed by "In Magazine Premium", Chairman and CEO Antonio Marcegaglia analysed the current sector and group economy: "After five difficult years, from 2016 we can finally talk about the recovery of the European steel industry, also thanks to the recovery of raw materials prices."
Marcegaglia has been recognized as "Partner in success" by the Bosch Group with the Bosch Global Supplier Award.
44 suppliers from 11 countries received this award before an audience of some 100 representatives of the supply industry.
Marcegaglia opens its official page on LinkedIn
Marcegaglia has officially opened its own page on LinkedIn, which will widespread the contents currently shared through other tools. The LinkedIn profile is an additional showcase, in which professional social network users will be able to discover news about the Marcegaglia world. We invite you to follow us here.
In the plants of Ravenna and Casalmaggiore, "industry 4.0" is a concrete reality for Marcegaglia: in Ravenna a fleet of automated guided vehicles, in Casalmaggiore an intelligent and automated crane system support the workers' activities.
"Steel Survival Strategies" XXXII, the largest conference in the North American steel industry, organized by American Metal Market in partnership with World Steel Dynamics, took place from 26 to 28 June 2017 at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York.
Marcegaglia: a new tool capable of continuously measuring the mechanical and microstructural properties of steel strips or sheets and online metal alloys.
Marcegaglia launches a brand new in-line measuring instrument for continuous industrial manufacturing processes such as galvanization, annealing, skin pass.
ArcelorMittal and Marcegaglia announce that AM Investco has concluded the exclusive negotiation phase and reached a binding agreement concerning the lease and obligation to purchase Ilva S.p.A and its subsidiaries with the Italian Government. The ancillary documentation will be completed by 30 June. Intesa Sanpaolo will formally join the consortium before transaction closing.
All Marcegaglia Carbon Steel, Marcegaglia Specialties and Marcegaglia Plates plants got two important certifications, UNI EN ISO 14001:2015 and OHSAS 18001:2007.
The Minister of Economic Development Carlo Calenda signed the decree authorizing the Extraordinary Commissioners to assign the business complexes of the Gruppo Ilva S.p.A. to Am Investco Italy S.r.l.
President Antonio Marcegaglia's point of view about innovation and digital revolution, during Made in Steel 2017, the most important event in Southern Europe dedicated to the entire steel chain.
Numbers, history, values and network that have led Marcegaglia to be the first independent player in steel processing in the world.
Marcegaglia at EuroBLECH 2018, the largest exhibition for sheet products
The 25th edition of EuroBLECH, for almost fifty years the world's largest exhibition for the sheet metal working industry, started on Tuesday 23 October. The event is held every two years in Hannover, Germany.
Marcegaglia leads Tube 2018, Düsseldorf
Marcegaglia is one of the leading players of Tube 18, the world's most important trade fair for the tube and tube processing industry, held in Düsseldorf from 16th to 20th April.
Marcegaglia at Intertraffic, Amsterdam
From 20 to 23 March, Marcegaglia takes part to Intertraffic, the world's leading trade fair for traffic and mobility held in Amsterdam (the Netherlands).
Marcegaglia at the R+T in Stuttgart
From 27 February to 3 March, Marcegaglia attends R+T, the leading world trade fair for doors, gates, roller shutters and sun protection systems, held in Stuttgart (Germany).
Marcegaglia leads the Budma exhibition in Poznań
From 30 January to 2 February Marcegaglia steels lead the Budma exhibition in Poznań (Poland), the largest event in Eastern Europe for designers, architects and construction engineers.
Marcegaglia, starring the SSW 2017 Maastricht Expo
Marcegaglia attends the Stainless Steel World Conference & Exhibition 2017, from November 28 to 30, in Maastricht (The Netherlands).
Marcegaglia at Blechexpo 2017, the biennial Stuttgart exhibition dedicated to sheet metal
Marcegaglia is one of the main companies to participate to Blechexpo (hall 4 - stand 4109) and it presents Laser Sharp®, the range of structural sheets for laser applications suitable for special finishes.
Marcegaglia starring at Batimat 2017
Marcegaglia is at Batimat (hall 6 - stand G80) with its range of structural steels, finished products and complete solutions for the construction industry.
Marcegaglia participates to the 9th edition of Tubotech in Sao Paulo, Brazil, from 3 to 5 October
Marcegaglia do Brasil presents at Tubotech its range of carbon steel welded (ERW) tubes, tubes and components for the refrigeration industry, carbon steel sheets and strips, cold formed sections, stainless steel welded (ERW) tubes, tubes for the automotive industry.
Marcegaglia at the Stainless 2017
From 17th to 18th May 2017 Marcegaglia takes part to "Stainless 2017", the International Stainless Steel Exhibition helding every two years in Brno in the Czech Republic.
Marcegaglia at the Made in Steel 2017
Great success with a large number of visitors at Marcegaglia stand during the "Made in Steel 2017" exhibition, one of the leading steel fairs in the world.
Marcegaglia at the Made Expo 2017
From 8 to 11 March Marcegaglia one of the leading players of the Made Expo, the most visited international exhibition in Italy and in the Mediterranean for projects and constructions.
Marcegaglia at BUDMA 2017, Poznan
Marcegaglia participates to Budma 2017 in Poznan with a booth in hall 6A stand 37 with its range of carbon steel flat, welded structural tubes and pre-painted steels for applications in the construction industry, including the latest novelties SHIMOCO and WOODEN PATTERN coating systems.
BAU 2017 Munich: materials and solutions for the construction industry at the world's leading trade fair
From 16th to Jan 21st BAU Munchen, the biggest trade fair in the world for designers, architects and construction engineers, showcasing all the last materials and solutions for the sector. Marcegaglia participates with a booth in hall B2 stand 523 with its range of pre-painted steels for applications in the construction industry, including the latest novelties SHIMOCO and WOODEN PATTERN coating systems.


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Tom's Farm. People who love the nature, the land, the clean environment around them, surely love to spend their life on peaceful places. If you are such kind of a person, you will surely be dedicated to agriculture your own food, because it is the healthiest and tastiest. Even if your appetites aren't very big, meaning you plant only the amount of vegetables and fruits that you and your family and friends can consume, why not? In modern era of GMO and food with suspicious origin, we should all be careful what we feed ourselves and our children, but even more, what eats ourselves. Spending time on open air and away from the noise and crowd in the big cities, being closer to the nature itself, who could ask for more? But, it is fool to think that farming and agriculture is a simple thing that only needs love to be accomplished. It is a whole science, a lot of skills and dedication are needed. And, again, if you don't like the idea of that, don't even bother with such kind of life.
Tom's Farm. Our game today will bring you on a lovely farm that one very dedicated young person has created. And, you are guessing, he needs your help in something. Young Tom is the youngest farmer in his village. He loves the farming more then anything in the world. But, Tom isn't Superman, and he needs help when it comes to the work on his propriety. That's why he called for help for his cousin, our player to help him with the everyday obligations on the farm, because his father is sick for a while. Tom is a hardworking boy and farming is no big deal for him – he loves it no obligation is difficult for him.
He is determined and ready to take over all the activities needed for the farm to be in perfect condition.So, tuck up your sleeves and help Tom!


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Our neighborhood hosts a Halloween parade every year on the Sunday before. Of course, the men of Christ Renews His Parish scheduled a retreat the same day, which divided my time to help prepare the kids. When I arrived home, the doll, complete in her witch costume informed me she was embarrassed to be near her brother. "Why, did he come up with a good costume?" "No, mom, he's going as himself except he's wearing a hat." 'Well", I began, "He is a scary dude in his own right, with all that hair…maybe that could be enough". Not buying my explanation she said, "Whatever Mom, but I'm not claiming him as my brother". "Whatever? Is right!
The boy had made plans the day before with Marg, to accompany her to the parade. Afterward, they would receive various candies thrown from the cars and floats and then run back to her house to play. The idea was to be at her house by 12:30 pm in costume so they would arrive together at the 1 pm set up. The boy's father, feeling sorry for him, took both kids out shopping for the right accessories for their costumes, yet the only thing the boy found that he liked was an "Indiana Jones" styled hat. I met up with him while he was walking down to Marg's. "Boy, you're not in costume, where are you going?" As he walked past me he said, "Yes I am, I'm wearing a hat. That's my costume". 'Wait, you're going as yourself except you're wearing a hat?" "No mom" he began, "I'm going as a super commando sniper, who wears a cool hat". He lifted his jacket in the back to reveal to me a Nerf gun he had placed in the waist band of his camouflage shorts. "See I got the gun, the hat and the style. I'm good to go! Love ya momma".