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My Perfect Fall Day Cutting School in 1992
I’m in the midst of a nostalgia kick, which always happens at this time of year. Autumn seems to have been when a lot of huge life events happen for me – my kiddo was born in August, so I will always associate autumn with sleepless nights, and figuring out breastfeeding. I got married in October. I met my hubby at the end of August, so autumn was when we were in those heady first days of romance. But I always go to this wonderful perfect October day in 1992 when I get super-nostalgic. My parents were going through their divorce, so I was on my own a lot of…
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Big Projects, Big Freakouts
I used to struggle with Finishing Things. I would get really great ideas, start to act on them in the thrill and excitement of starting something new, then I’d get distracted by a new shiny object, and the original project would slide by the wayside. Every once in a while I’d pick it up again and examine it. wondering whether I should start the work on it again, which I might do for a day or two, but invariably just as I was nearing a good completing point I’d quit. This became so much a part of who I was that I knew before I even began a big project…
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Life Update September 23
So, an update on life from Spain when I haven’t blogged in a month (note to self: seriously, write every day. It makes you feel so much better). Covid cases in Spain are still going up, and in the middle of that they decided to open schools. Not only did they decide to open schools, but home schooling is basically illegal here, and they prosecute truancy really strict – parents have lost custody of their kids for keeping them home too long – so there is some uproar over the whole school-situation. We’re okay with it because our kiddo goes to a school out in the countryside with small classes…
