Month: October 2010

  • We were living in Korea and I was going to an American school. I can’t remember my teacher’s name. But I can remember the day when my teacher, whose name might have started with a G, was writing on the blackboard and explaining that a desert only has one “s.” But a dessert has two,…

  • Computer crashed, husband crashed, website crashed, email crashed… I think that just about covers everything. The computer is fixed, the husband is healing, the car insurance companies are settling… the only things that still aren’t working are the website and email. So if you have emailed me in the past couple of days and I…

  • At 9:18 pm on Tuesday evening, I had just finished dinner with friends in Oakland, when I got a phone call from my mother-in-law saying Arann, my husband, her son, was in the hospital. She said… he had been hit by a drunk driver at 3:30 pm while driving home from farm camp. She said……

  • I love film and I love summer. And I couldn’t live without either one. Well, maybe I could. But life would be a lot less interesting and a lot less fun. The only problem is that they are both so very time-consuming. This summer was so busy that it seemed not to exist at all.…