A Mindful Life

I helped make forty-eight centerpieces for an Easter/Spring event hosted by my Las Madres play group. The house was chaos (a friend hosted), full of kids and moms and craft supplies. We had fun! Claire was watching kids run around outside while I stuffed flowers into pots.

I’ve got nothing to say, really. Ordinary life happens daily. I figure sometimes it’s pointless to write about it. Here’s one of the things I did today; after many months of thinking about it, I finally got around to doing it. (Good mothers cleanse the spittle off their kids’ toys more often than that.) I’m [...]

My daughter is seized by paroxysms of laughter by crinkly plastic grocery bags, tissue paper being scrunched, and wrapping paper being torn. There is nothing more amusing in the universe to her. Makes me happy too!

And therefore I must share them. I have a rock garden. Last week three of them died. –Richard Diran I know a lot about cars. I can look at a car’s headlights and tell you exactly which way it’s coming. –Mitch Hedberg I shot an arrow into the air, and it stuck. –Graffito It’s been [...]