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Did it look like the pattern envelope when you were done sewing it? Yes it does!
Thursday, March 31, 2011
Vogue 1224 - Tracy Reese
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Pattern: Vogue 1224 - Tracy Reese
Pattern Sizing: 8-24, I cut the 16
Description: Partially lined, pullover dress has short dolman sleeves elastic waistline and neckline with tie ends, stiched hems and above mid-knee length. Purchased stoppers for tie ends.
Did it look like the pattern envelope when you were done sewing it? Yes it does!
Did it look like the pattern envelope when you were done sewing it? Yes it does!
Fabric: Rayon Print (97% rayon/3% lycra) from Denver Fabrics.com
Were the instructions easy to follow? Yes they were. They were extremely easy and a beginner could easily handle this with no problem.
What did you particularly like or dislike about the pattern? I love designer Tracy Reese and pretty much anything that she attaches her name to!
Pattern alterations or any design changes you made? I added 1" to the bodice pieces and 3" to the hemline. If you've read other reviews, you already know that this dress is short. I have no problem with the length -- after I made my usually alterations. I like where the designer intended for it to fall. It's perfect for warm weather with cute sandals!
Would you sew it again? Would you recommend it to others? Even though I think this dress is so adorable, I have SO MANY dresses to get to for this Spring and Summer. But I do recommend it -- with alterations if you like.
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[Image by Carlos Latuff] By Uri Avnery's - Gush Shalom 14/04/07 AT THIS moment, negotiations on a prisoner exchange are in full swing. The term "negotiations" is really inappropriate. "Haggling" seems more fitting. One could also use an uglier expression: "trafficking in human beings". The … [Read more...]
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"The moment of truth has arrived, and it has to be said: Israel does not want peace. The arsenal of excuses has run out, and the chorus of Israeli rejection already rings hollow. Until recently, it was still possible to accept the Israeli refrain that "there is no partner" for peace and that "the time isn't … [Read more...]
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This is very long article, if you don't have the time to read it now, save it for other time as it is a "must read"! The Problem with Israel By Jeff Halper Thursday, November 23, 2006 Let's be honest (for once): The problem in the Middle East is not the Palestinian people, not Hamas, not the Arabs, … [Read more...]
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Did you know that police in spying on Americans and beating the crap out of people? Here is a video taken by police themselves: Did you know that in some of the harshest language he has used to date, former President Jimmy Carter called Israeli "domination" over Palestinians "atrocious" in an … [Read more...]
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Did you know that Israel didn't allow Palestinian football team to travel to Asian Cup match? Ironically, even though this Reuters' story was distributed through the wires on Nov. 11th, four days later, FOX Sports was taken by surprise that the Palestinian team was a "no-show." Did you know that Israeli … [Read more...]
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(Ben Heine © Cartoons) So, who can volunteer to tell the Israeli nation that their "top ranked elected terrorist" (a.k.a. Olmert) don't want peace with Palestinians? The humble man announced that he remained attached to the internationally-backed "roadmap to peace" based on Bush's vision of a Palestinian … [Read more...]
Break Embargo Against Palestine: First Time in History, Arab League VETO U.S.? Not Really!
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Israel: "We want peace with Arab, meanwhile, let's steal more land"
And it's not me who is saying so, but Israelis themselves: Peace Now report: Outposts are in the news again because the settlers, taking advantage of Israelis' (and the media's) focus on the war with Hezbollah, used the summer of 2006 to expand outposts. Peace Now carefully documented this expansion and … [Read more...]
Education or mind infection?
If you do not read anything else today, read the speech by Nurit, an Israeli women who lost her daughter to a Palestinian suicide bombing. I came to know that all in the audience, Christians, Muslims, and Jews literally cried. Read it and judge for yourself. Education or mind infection? By Nurit … [Read more...]
Time to talk peace
Dear friends, First, to my Jewish friends, Shana Tova, and to my Muslim friends, Ramadan Mubarak. It is rather unique that these two events started on the same day this year. So let us hope this is a sign for better days ahead, albeit the world has nearly forgotten how Ramadan would reflect on the … [Read more...]
Arab League wants conference on Mid East Peace – Israel is opposed
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/759168.html Of COURSE Israel is opposed, because Israel does not want peace..... Israel wants the land, it wants to expel the Palestinians, and it likes playing the poor, defenseless victim (the only victim with atom bombs in the region).... today, it is complaining … [Read more...]
I hate you, my ENEMY!
My enemy's enemy is my friend. We have a saying in Arabic that says: "My brother and I against our cousin, and my cousin and I against the foreigner stranger." This means that despite any misunderstanding or conflict between myself and my brother; when our cousin attack us, we (myself and my brother) unit … [Read more...]
Palestine is still the Issue
In the special report John Pilger returns to the Occupied Territories of the West Bank and Gaza where he filmed a documentary with the same title, about the same issues, in 1974. He finds the basic problems unchanged: a desperate, destitute people whose homeland is illegally occupied by the world's fourth … [Read more...]
Evangelical Blindness on Lebanon
"Of course, I will be accused of being an anti-Semite because of such words. But I will just shrug and sneer at that accusation and say: "What makes you a Semite anyway?" Having just read the holocaust account of Elie Wiesel's Night with tears and deep empathy, having Jewish relatives on my Swiss mother's … [Read more...]
Jewish Voice for Peace
Jewish Voice for Peace has created some good posters. Please download them and mass copy. Post and distribute in public places. Place them on windshields of cars at churches and synagogues. Post them in the your local library and mall. Ask your storekeepers to post them on the door of their stores. … [Read more...]
Blood Borders
Alright, so U.S. doesn't want the war to stop. These guys have nothing to lose; it's only Arab and Israeli who will pay the price for the American Empire. Well, maybe more that Arab and Israeli. Nothing new here, but in fact today news reminded me of "Blood borders - How a better Middle East would look," … [Read more...]
I accuse you !
"I, Tsilli Goldenberg, Israeli citizen Accuse you - Ehud Olmert, Prime Minister of Israel, Amir Peretz, Minister of Defense, Dan Halutz Head of Staff Chief Commander of the Israeli Army, of committing this bestial barbaric slaughter in Lebanon. I accuse you of committing Crimes against Humanity towards … [Read more...]
Eve of Destruction
Hey your blog is extremely powerful and helpful! If course beyond sad! I used the pictures you had on there for a video pod of a song I rewrote and played yesterday! I hope to create a dialogue through music. as for the mid east, so many Americans are being mislead through years of propaganda. As, an … [Read more...]
They are Saying 'Thank You!'
Will you keep your words? Here is a campaign that just started after Arab foreign ministers for the first time admitted to the failure of the Middle East Peace Process. They say thank you to the man who said it to the world and help push the issue forward. Join www.thankyouamrmoussa.com What would be … [Read more...]
Listen, World!
The Palestinian sisters, mothers, wives and daughters of Palestinian prisoners are all saying: What can go worse than what we went through? NOTHING! They want to shoot us? They already did... They will occupy the land? It is already occupied... They will cut our food and water supply? We are … [Read more...]
Israel is submitting!
Today Haaretz report: Army would free prisoners without 'blood on their hands' in exchange for soldier. IMHO, this is nothing more than a trial balloon, a statement that somebody in the IOF wants a way to step back from the brink. Lets look closely at the specific conditions and on certain types of … [Read more...]
New Roadmap: The Italian-Japanese Version
Guess what could bring Italy, Japan, and the infamous (a.k.a. Bush) Palestinian/Israeli Roadmap, together? It is a full-page advertising about an (expensive) car by isuzu appeared in "Il Piccolo" (newspaper from Trieste, italy), on 16 may 2006 pag 22. Can't find trace of this image in online … [Read more...]
In remembrance of those living dead, called refugees
After 58 years of this man-made Catastrophe called Nakba, more than half of Israelis want their gov't to "help" Palestinians emigrate out. As if Palestinian didn't have enough, majority of the Israelis want us to go out, yet, we are asked to make peace with Israelis. The question is, which Israelis? The … [Read more...]


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The issues were serious to result in seven of the 31 pharmacies recalling "some or all of their sterile compounded products" produced under these observed conditions. For example:
"FDA sampled a compounded sterile injectable solution during one of its inspections in March 2013 and found bacteria in the product," resulting in a nationwide recall of over 50 sterile drug products.
"Another compounding pharmacy recalled its sterile drug products that had not yet reached the expiration date listed on the product because of a lack of sterility assurance." The products had supplied medical professional offices in that state. "However, some patients that received products from those medical professionals may live in other states."
Joseph Hill, director of federal legislative affairs for the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists, praised the GAO report saying it "provides further credence to the argument that the current regulatory environment around compounding is flawed and the gaps that currently exist enabled NECC to be licensed as a pharmacy while behaving more like a drug manufacturer."
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In a long standing tradition, Eyewitness News named Saturday's storm Ashford.
The naming of winter storms is a longtime tradition at WFSB and when the station was called WTIC before that. The television station has been naming storms since 1971.
This year, storms are being named after Connecticut towns that could also be a person's name, DePrest said.
In less than 48 hours, snow will be falling in Connecticut. By the time it's done, winter storm Ashford could produce upwards of 4 inches to 8 inches of precipitation.
Depending on the track of the storm, many said winter storm Ashford will dump eight or more inches on the town of Ashford.
On Friday, residents were out and about in the little town in Windham County trying to fill the gas tanks and get errands done before the snow starts to flying.
Ashford was founded in 1714 as a farming community. Its population is about 4,300 people or 1,570 households. The town boasts to be home to the largest Boy Scout camp in Connecticut as well as the Paul Newman's Hole in the Wall Gang camp.
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List of Chief of Staff applicants
By Jason Schultz
Below is the complete list of all 53 applicants for the Palm Beach County School District's new Chief of Staff position, which will pay between $116,000 and $189,000 and be responsible for coordinating the oversight of all district departments and representing Superintendent Wayne Gent at some meetings. No deadline has been set to select the new chief.
Applicants are external candidates unless otherwise denoted as current employee at Palm Beach County School District schools or a charter school within the county.
1. Abatal, Dorothy (current employee)
2. Alaraj, Ahmad
3. Alston, Torey
4. Bell, Erica (current employee)
5. Bolden, David
6. Bryan, Anthony
7. Burke, Valerie
8. Calloway, Maxine
9. Cevallos, Pedro
10. Clements, Henry
11. Copeland, Paul
12. Cox, Timothy
13. Curci, Ernest
14. Dotson, Jeremy
15. Epstein, Barry
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17. Gadson, Timothy
18. Gomez, Jorge
19. Grzybowski, Chris
20. Hunter‐Harvill, Deborah
21. Jackson, Nichole
22. Johnson, Frank
23. Johnson, Marcus
24. Kerbaugh, Jon
25. Kessler, Stuart
26. Lane, Michael
27. Licata, Peter (current employee)
28. Lucchesi, Michael
29. Maher, Thomas
30. Massie, Raymond
31. McCartney, Jeffrey
32. Muhammad, Yasmeenah
33. Murphy, Richard (current charter school employee)
34. Needs, Steve (current employee)
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36. Nunez, Barbara
37. OConnor, Paul (current employee)
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40. Reynolds, Richard
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46. Stefano, Steven (current employee)
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2014: Our summer of housekeeping training
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Last summer we taught our kids how to cook. This summer, I'm teaching them how to clean.
We've been away from home for four weeks. We camped, we visited family in Georgia and Florida, we vacationed on a Gulf beach, and the kids and I traveled north to Charlottesville to visit my childhood girlfriends and their kids. In the middle of all of this, I interviewed for a dream job, was asked to perform a sample project, and will be continuing the interview process over the next few weeks.
And what have I been thinking about the whole time? Our entire vacation I wondered: How am I going to clean the house if I'm working full-time?
When I first started thinking about re-entering the workforce, I started tracking my hours in my role as stay-at-home mom. I discovered I spend about 15-18 hours a week on writing and my blogs and about 30 hours a week on my job as CEO of the household. If I add 40 hours a week for a job, plus time for sleeping, eating, showering, and relaxing with the family, my brain short circuits and I start doing robot arms: Does not compute! Does not compute!
On vacation, I spent a lot of time strategizing how to make it work. My mental health requires a clean home. In college I could not study until my room was spotless, and I know that in order to focus on my work I will need a tidy, clean workspace. My first thought was to hire a housekeeper, but then my husband said, "Why don't we pay the kids?"
Uh, duh.
As (I've heard) Sheryl Sandberg suggests in her book Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead, it takes teamwork for women to succeed in the work force. Just as traditionally it took a spouse at home taking care of the household for men to succeed in their careers, it takes a supportive spouse – and family – for women to succeed as well. None of us can do it alone. So after my husband volunteered the kids (and himself) to help take on the jobs that were once mine, I formulated a plan:
I first made a list of all the chores:
- meal planning, grocery shopping
- budget, paying bills, reconciling bank account
- clean kitchen (every other week)
- vacuum
- iron
- laundry Monday & Thursday
- empty bathroom and kitchen garbage cans
- take trash to curb on Thursdays
- take recycling to bin periodically
- take recycling to curb on Thursdays
- sweep and mop
- dust
- clean mirrors and windows
- clean bathrooms
- change and launder linens
- sweep & weed back deck
I assigned permanent jobs to each of us according to our physical locations (I hope to be working from home so laundry is mine), mental or physical ability (the kids can't manage the budget, and our vacuum is too heavy for them), and time constraints (garbage duties are quick for the kids when school and sports are in session) and then split the remaining chores among the four of us on a rotating schedule. For example, my chores this week are to change sheets and towels and to sweep the back deck. Next week my chore will be to sweep and mop.
When we talked to the kids about how we'd need help with housework if I re-enter the workforce, and especially when we told them that when I start earning again, they will start earning, too – they will get a bump in allowance – they were all about me getting a job. Surprisingly, they were all about the extra chores, too. As our 10 year-old son and I bobbed in the Gulf of Mexico, talking about financial planning and matching funds if they chose to put money in long-term savings, he asked "Hey Mom? Do you think sometimes we could do extra chores to earn screen time instead of money? If I buy a new game it's always sad that I don't have much time to play it."
Great idea, little dude. Productivity deserves rewards. Besides, that's one more opportunity to free up time for their Dad and me, and one more chance to teach the kids how to manage a household.
On our drive home from Florida, I scribbled notes in my composition book: how to scrub a toilet, how to sweep, how to mop a floor, how to sort and wash laundry. When we returned home, while sandy shorts and tee-shirts tumbled in the dryer, I wrote a housekeeping manual. I punched holes in the tutorials and put the pages in a leftover school folder. And on the one full day at home between Florida and Charlottesville, I told the kids, "Grab those cleaning caddies from the laundry room and bring them up to our bathroom. With cleaning, we start at the top and move down."
Our son said, "I've got bathrooms the first week, so can you show me how to do that?"
Yes sir.
He read the instructions out loud then started with one bathroom while our daughter started with another. They scrubbed and sprayed and wiped and rinsed while I stood by to answer questions and demonstrate technique. They fought over who got to try laundry first, and took turns with the glass cleaner so they'd both get an opportunity to squirt mirrors and windows. They struggled with carrying the mop bucket up and down the stairs and with keeping the mop over the bucket while they wrung it out, but they did it all, and our house was clean when they finished. They studied the chart, smiling over all the chores they now knew how to do, checking the *asterisked parent chores to see what extra jobs they could do to earn screen time.
The next day, before we left for Charlottesville, when the sun was shining and the kids were bored, our daughter came up to me and asked, "Hey Mom? Can I wash your car?"
And I said, Yes ma'am, you sure can. I'll be over here at the beer table. Reveling.
The cleaning caddy is one of my happiness containers, especially now that our kids are carrying it.
I'm going to WordCamp Asheville!
May 26, 2014 § 11 Comments
A friend and I were talking about college for our kids the other day – my friend and her teenage son have been driving around the state visiting schools – and she said to me, "It's really competitive you know. What makes a student stand out these days isn't GPA or test scores, it's their deep interest in something. It's too late for us, but your kids are still young, maybe you can help encourage them in ways we never did."
"What do you mean?" I asked.
"We didn't help our kids find their passions," she said, "the things they would choose to do on a Saturday morning when they had free time on their hands." She gestured like she had a gamepad in her hands, pushed imaginary buttons with her thumbs. "Besides video games I mean." She shrugged. "Our boy played soccer for years, not because he was passionate about the game but because he liked playing on a team with his friends. We didn't introduce him to anything else and now we don't know what his passion is."
This conversation jump-started my husband and me to start thinking about how to provide our kids with opportunities to try new things, to see what takes and what doesn't, without overscheduling their lives. He has been itching to introduce our son, who loves hiking and camping, to backpacking. Our daughter, on the other hand, is bored by hiking but wants to scale every rock we pass on a forest trail; my husband wants to take her rock-climbing. For now, our son reads when his screen time is finished; our daughter makes Easy Bake recipes from scratch. She spent three hours in the kitchen one Saturday making a four-layer rainbow cake with four different colors of frosting. Reading and baking: I'm on board with both of those. And we'd like to give them other options as well.
After contemplating our kids' passions, I got to thinking, what do I do with my free time? How do I fill it up? What do I do because I love to do it, because I think it's fun? And the answer was obvious. I write.
More specifically, though, what I do with my free time, what I do for fun, is I blog.
I love writing. I've written for pleasure for more than 30 years. But in this age – in the age of the internet, of the breaking the rules of form, of the democratization of publishing – what I love about writing is blogging. I love creating my own little space on the web, where I can set up my studio however I like, where I can change paint colors, decorate the background, create a mood, and publish my own little periodical. I love that. I think about blog posts when I drive, I jot notes when I jump out of the shower, I wake early so I can write because I am energized by the opportunities that blogging provides: to write, to edit, to publish, and to interact with readers, all with an immediacy and an intimacy that the traditional publishing route does not provide. I spend my free time blogging because blogging is fun.
Which is why, when I got the email from WordCamp Asheville that a wait-list ticket had opened up, I scraped my savings account clean to buy my pass and a hotel room. A Saturday and a Sunday, dedicated entirely to learning more about WordPress and the blogging world. I've already figured out when sessions I'm going to attend, from engaging through personal narrative with Cindy Reed, to how to troubleshoot with Russell Fair, to beginners CSS with Lydia Roberts, to building an active online community with Michael Calvert.
I am so excited! What I'm realizing from this giddiness is how joyous it is to find that thing that makes you happy, to find that thing that you're passionate about, to find that thing that makes you wish for more free time in your life so you can do more of that thing.
I want this feeling for our children.
Soon, I hope to re-enter the workforce. I hope to re-enter the workforce so we can give our kids chances to try, to explore, to give them opportunities to find the things that make them say, "I can't wait for Saturday so I can ___!" I want this for them not because it will help them get into college, but because I want them to know the joy of doing, and being excited to do, a thing they love. I want to bring in a little extra income so we can try out that backpacking equipment, we can pay for rock-climbing lessons, we can give our kids chances to find the things that might one day make them giddy to clean out their savings account to spend two back-to-back 7-hour days in classrooms power-learning about.
I worry about what working outside the home might mean for my writing and blogging lives. The work I do now as a stay-at-home-mom and manager of the household is flexible. I can write around it. Unless I get the job I'm hoping most for, which would allow me to work remotely, I fear I might lose touch with my blogs. It's a really big fear, in fact. Fortunately, WordCamp has that covered. I've got Work, Life, Blog Balance, taught by Alicia Murray at BalancingMotherhood.com, circled in red on my schedule. I'll find a way to protect that Saturday free time for the thing I love, and as importantly, I'll be working to help our kids figure out what to do with theirs.
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Diary or Memory: Which is the Reliable Narrative?
May 19, 2014 § 10 Comments
I've been reading through my diaries, and have found plenty of scandal that made me laugh so hard I cried*:
We all hate Crystal now. Guess what! We're having a prom! (April 15, 1986; 11 years old)
We don't hate Crystal. I'm glad because she's a lot nicer than Hilga [who determined who we hated and who we didn't]. We didn't win quizbowl. (May 10, 1986; 11 years old)
Today was my first day of middle school. We have 4, hundred pound books and we have to carry them home and to school and all that junk. (August 25, 1986; 11 years old)
I love Teddy so much! He's so cute. He's got blond hair, he's tan, he's got pretty straight teeth, he eats a lot. (October 12, 1986; 12 years old)
I was always into straight teeth.
But what is strange to me is that these things that I'm reading from my 11-year-old self are not the things I remember from being 11 years old. The people I mention are contemporaries of plenty of people I do remember, but until I read my diary, Crystal and Teddy had evaporated completely from my psyche.
It makes me wonder about the whole trustworthy narrator thing. Several times I have read my own words and thought, that's not how I remember it. In my little blue diary I wrote that I was excited when I started my period, but I don't remember being excited. I remember being mortified because I couldn't get to the bathroom and I was afraid I'd have a stain on my jeans and omg everyone is going to know I'm on my period. It seems strange that the memory that I've carried with me my whole life is so unlike what I recorded on the page.
Terry Tempest Williams wrote a beautiful book, When Women Were Birds, in which she inherits her mother's journals, a tradition within her Mormon clan. Her mother told her, "I am leaving you all my journals, but you must promise me you won't look at them until after I'm gone." And when Terry looked at them, after her mother was gone, she found that they were all empty. When Women Were Birds: Fifty-Four Variations On Voice is Williams's grappling with those blank pages – why are all the books empty? Where is her mother's voice? Why would her mother buy all these journals, not write in them, keep them, and then pass their silent pages down to her?
There are many entries like my first-period entry, entries that jar me in their discordance with my memory. The memories that stick with me are the ones I took for granted at the time, that weren't remarkable to an 11-year-old girl, that didn't merit recording in a diary. Like how pretty the marsh looks in summer, when a storm is coming, and the grass looks neon green against a blackening sky. Like the mud-romping shoes I made with my brother, and the heavy stillness of the marsh at low tide, when the sun beat down on us, and I could barely breathe through the thick humid air. Like laying on my clean, cool white comforter and reading books after I'd showered, when I was rewarded with coming inside into the air conditioning after Mom had turned us out of the house for a few hours.
None of those things – the marshes, the mud-romping shoes, the books I read – made it to the pages of my diaries. I know because as an adult I wanted to write about them. These scenes are vivid in my memory; if they are the things that stick with me from childhood now, they must have been important to me then. Surely I can mine my diaries for details.
Alas, no.
Perhaps Willams's mother recognized this, this limiting of narrative that a journal necessitates. Perhaps she knew that what she recorded on the page – the page that would eventually be passed down to her daughter – would be but a small part of her whole experience, and that words on a page would inevitably narrow her existence to anyone who was not her, who did not have her memories that filled the negative space between the lines, the everyday things that she took for granted, the things that didn't merit recording in a diary.
When I began scanning my teenage diaries, I could only read a few minutes before having to go outside and soak up some sunlight. They take me into that dark place of adolescence, of not being sure who I was, of being a follower, of wanting desperately to be liked, of trying not to stand out. It doesn't feel good to go back to that place. When I read the melodrama of my 16-year-old self I think, my God, I hope our kids never read this, they'll think I was a miserable soul.
In my memory of teenage life there is glee that balances the angst recorded in my diaries. I remember riding with the top down on my VW Super Beetle and singing at the top of my lungs. I remember slumber parties with pizza and cake and Pretty in Pink. I remember laughter with my best friends, and coffee at Daybreak Café, and reading our musings about the universe to each other at Waffle House, smoking cigarettes and eating grits.
In my diaries there is only venting. In my teens I wrote when I was upset, when I needed to process. Anyone who found these diaries would only get the darkness, and not the light, of my teenage life. A writing buddy inherited her mother's diaries and what she finds there distresses her. I told her about my teen diaries, and how filled with angst they are because I only wrote when I needed to vent, when I needed a place to sort my thoughts and vomit emotion. This was eye-opening to her, that perhaps that was her mother's method as well. That perhaps the pages did not tell her mother's whole story.
Maybe Terry Tempest Williams's mother knew this as well, that journaling to sort, to process, to vent, to vomit could leave a powerful and potentially inaccurate legacy.
Despite what I've learned about the (un)reliability of my childhood diaries, I don't care about incongruity when it comes to my journals as a new mother. What I remember about my colicky newborn son's first weeks is desperation. When I remember myself during that time I picture my eyes as a dying horse's – wide open and rolling in panic. What I remember is do-gooder's poo-pooing my anxiety, saying "Oh, colic usually goes away after three months," and my fright that I wouldn't make it that long. What I remember is standing in the street waiting for my husband to come home so that I could hand our screaming son to him. So that I could collapse into tears myself.
What I wrote about in my journals were our son's laughter, his coos, how fulfilled I felt holding him, gazing at him, feeding him. How he melted my heart.
He turns his head and looks straight into my eyes. And then he smiles. No matter how tired I am, when he does that it's all gone, and I'm head over heels in love. (December 28, 2003; Mom 29, Baby 4 weeks)
Those journals and the joy they contain show me that I wasn't the monster I remember myself being. The words that chronicle our son's first year do not reflect the angst I remember but instead record the glee.
I like the Mormon tradition of Terry Tempest Williams's family, of women's voices being passed down through the generations through their diaries. I am sad for Williams that her mothers journals are empty, and she does not know why. Perhaps her mother was wiser than I and knew that whatever she wrote would tell a slanted tale, and knowing her words would be passed down, she could not be free with them. By leaving the pages blank, she gave Williams a gift of exploration, a wide open story instead of a narrow narrative.
I was not that wise or creative. Instead, after toting my childhood diaries around for 28 years, never considering that my children might one day read them, I find myself wondering now – is this the narrative of my life I want my children to know? Is it true?
My husband has always told me I'm a black and white person, that I see the world as This or That, rarely as a blending of both, as I'm currently doing, pitting diary against memory, as if one were truer than the other.
In the end, there wasn't one thing about him that was truer than the rest. It was all true. – Paula McLain, The Paris Wife
Memory and diary are not mutually exclusive. They both contain truth. As a woman with a fickle memory, I would have once said that the diary was the truer – it is a written record of the events of a life as they were happening, when they were fresh, when time and consequences hadn't yet shaped them into something more or less than they were at the time. Now, though, looking back on the bits I chose to record and holding them up against the memories that never made it onto journal pages – the blank bits behind the words – I realize that my memories are equally real, equally valid as records of my life. Diary, memory – it is all true.
I don't know what I'll do about my childhood diaries. I'll keep them through our kids' teen years to remind me what it was like to be that age, but after that I don't know that I'll pass them along. Those aren't the story I want to tell.
My motherhood journals though. Those I'm hanging onto. Unlike my childhood diaries which disappoint me that they don't contain the memories I cherish, my motherhood journals make me so grateful I want to cry. My motherhood journals do not tell the whole story, but they tell the story I had forgotten was there. My motherhood journals tell the story I want to remember, and am thankful the pages record: the joy, the wonder, the beginnings of brand new lives. They tell the story I want to share with my children – their story, our story – and we can fill in the blanks together with our memories.
* Names have been changed to protect the innocent (and the guilty).
Chaperoning the fourth grade field trip to Jamestown, Virginia
May 2, 2014 § 7 Comments
Wet socks
Wet toes
Tangled hair
Muddy shoes
Bad coffee
Gritty eyes
Happy son.
First of all, let me just say that teachers are saints. If you have a child, or even if you don't, I'd like you to please take a moment to silently applaud the teachers who are taking care of our nation's children: teaching them history, encouraging manners, spending entire days with rooms full of children who aren't their own, smiling, clapping, telling our kids they are awesome, dispensing hugs and band aids, and cleaning up barf on charter busses to Jamestown. Every time I am around our children's teachers, I am in awe of what they do, and I am deeply grateful for them.
This past Monday and Tuesday I chaperoned our son's fourth grade spring field trip to Jamestown, Colonial Williamsburg, and Yorktown, Virginia. Our son has been excited about this trip since the first week of school when they found out they'd be going. Fourth grade Virginia curriculum includes Virginia history, and in our school and many others, that means a field trip to the places where the United States as we know it began. Our son raised money selling Virginia Diner peanuts, and after many long months of preparing and waiting (and a five-hour bus ride in the rain) we donned ponchos and foul weather gear and stepped out into the drizzle.
The thing I love most about my job as Mom is doing things like this. Even though I bitch and complain about having to be around all these kids, and how loud it's going to be, how it's going to be like herding cats, how we have to be vigilant about keeping the kids away from the river, and constantly counting heads, and looking for the ever-shifting red hood, blue poncho (distinguishable from the other blue ponchos only by the pink soles of the shoes that peek out from the bottom), clear poncho with a blue hoodie underneath, and green raincoat – even though I complain about all of this, the thing is, the kids are actually awesome, and I secretly love every second of it.
I love volunteering in the classroom, I love chaperoning, I love watching our children in their non-home habitats because I learn so much about them when I'm present but not in charge, when I'm standing quietly on the sidelines. In sports I get to see how motivated our kids are, how they interact as a team player, whether they respect and respond to their coaches, how they react to winning or losing. In the classroom I get to observe while our children's attention is focused on something else; I get to observe the other kids in their class – who are the attentive kids, the class clowns, the sweet ones, the troublemakers?; I get to experience the teacher's style; I get to see when my son laughs, which lessons engage him, which kids he gravitates towards. I get to see what his days are like so that when I ask him at the end of a school day, "How was your day?" and he says, "Fine," I am able to accept his introversion with grace because I will have an idea of his experience, will be able to picture his classroom, will know something of his day beyond the one-word answer he gives me.
On field trips I get to experience what they experience, I get to learn what they learn, and most fun of all, I get to witness their unfettered joy at being out in the real world, learning real stuff – stuff that they learned from books and in the classroom but that is so much more exciting when you experience it in real life. In Jamestown I got to see our son's interest in the Powhatan canoe, the way he scanned it from stern to bow with his eyes, held his hand over the still-warm coals reenactors used to burn a hollow in the tree trunk. In Colonial Williamsburg I got to gently prod him because he was lagging behind, too busy taking pictures in his awe. I got to hear him giggle at the slapstick 18th-Century Grand Medley of Entertainment – the type of theater production Thomas Jefferson might have attended – at the Kimball Theatre. I got to watch him touch the plaque that marked General George Washington's church pew, I experienced the pride of hearing him explain the Virginia House of Burgesses – the first assembly of elected representatives in our country – to our tour guide, and to seeing him sit on a jury in the Capitol building's courtroom.
The following day, with aching muscles from the cabin's hard mattress, with no real coffee in my system, with puffy eyes and ratted hair, I got to experience with our son the feel of the Yorktown encampment on a cold, wet, muddy, raw day. I could not imagine being a soldier there, wet and dripping and sleeping on the mucky ground, and I think the day gave the kids a tiny feel of what it might have been like for our Revolutionary War ancestors. Despite the cold and wet, the kids loved the musket demonstration, where the reenactor explained the difference between the match-lit musket of Jamestown and the flintlock musket of Yorktown, and where she showed them how to load and fire the weapon. They gagged and squealed "GROSS!" when our guide demonstrated the surgeon's tools on volunteer musket-maimed kids, and they grinned as they squeezed into tiny solider tents.
The kids were pretty worn out by the time we stopped at the battlefield, the real Yorktown battlefield, and stood where George Washington stood, on the same ground that General Washington paced and strategized and gave orders from, but their exhaustion did not stop them from shouting out answers when their teacher stood atop a bench with a semi-circle of cannons around her and asked, "What happened here?!"
"The Siege at Yorktown!"
"Who won?"
"We did!"
"Who surrendered?"
"General Cornwallis!"
"Where is Surrender Hill?"
"Redoubts 9 and 10!"
"Well let's go look at them!"
And she jumped down from the bench and all the kids ran for the hills. We oohed and aahed and paused to take in the panorama, and then the kids were running again, towards the busses and their potato chips, their DSes and their pillows, as we, the parents, dragged our tired feet from the battlefield. We basked in memories from the trip on the long, dry drive home, where our work was done and where our little ones munched candy and worked quietly on their trip journals, watched videos and giggled, and slept the beautiful sleep of children.
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She irons and she packs and her heart buzzes like a hummingbird's wings. She watches the clock and checks the mountain's weather and washes dishes and taps her pen and eats and checks the clock and when it says 2 she stands at the window and watches for the car.
This is my entry for the fifty-word-story writing challenge.


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Baikal Trail House
This is a small, family-run property with 5 dorm beds available in total. There is a kitchen (fridge, crockery, cutlery etc) that you could use if you feel like cooking. The bathroom and toilet are shared and of course there is the washing machine.
The property is also our family home and we hope you will feel very happy here too.
Experience the outdoor beauty of northern Lake Baikal. Severobaikalsk (Северобайкальск) is a base for coastal and forest trails, village homestays, camping by Lake Baikal and nearby lake, visiting hot springs, and hiking to a Stalin-era gulag mine. Severobaikalsk can be reached by the BAM train line and by hydrofoil from Irkutsk.
It is possible to do independent hikes and we can help you arrange transport and could probably answer most of your questions. Guides and guided tours could also be arranged.
The Baikal Trail Property is about 1 km from the Severobaikalsk train station and about 2 km from the hydrofoil landing. It was started in 2007 to house Great Baikal Trail (GBT) volunteers and independent travelers. GBT is a Siberian based international effort to build trails in the Lake Baikal region to provide an infrastructure for ecotourism (an alternative to industrial development). See www.greatbaikaltrail.org for projects open to Russian and international volunteers.
Our staff is affiliated with GBT. We are concerned with environmental protection and have knowledge about outdoor activities. Your stay helps to support trail-building and environmental protection efforts.
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B&B Facilities & Policies
- Bicycle hire
- Book exchange
- Breakfast not included
- Child Friendly
- Credit Cards Not Accepted
- Free Internet Access
- Free Wifi
- Hair Dryers
- Internet Access
- Kitchen
- Laundry Facilities
- Non Smoking
- Parking
- Pet Friendly
- Taxes included
- Tea/Coffee Making Facilities
- Towels Included
Cancellation PolicyThis property has a 1 day cancellation policy. Failure to cancel within this time will result in a cancellation charge equal to the first night of your stay.
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How do I get to the hostel?
If you arrived in Severobaikalsk by train, you should go through the train station and then turn right and walk along the street 60 Years of the USSR past the city market, until you get to the intersection with Studencheskaya Street. Turn left and walk along Studencheskaya Street until you get to a typical 5-story Soviet building on your left with the address Studencheskaya Street 12. Go in through the second entryway, which has a sign that says '2 (16-30)'. You'll see a sign in the window to the left of the entryway door that says 'Walking Bear'. The door has a security system, but sometimes it is left open - check to see. If the door doesn't open, dial '16' on the keypad next to the door and wait for an answer. We will unlock the door for you, and wait for you on the first floor in apartment 16.
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The flat is situated in short walking distance from the train station. It is on the ground floor, so will save your legs for the treks!
There is a market around the corner and the town centre is a short walk away too. There are a couple of cafes at the market, where you could try 'posi' (Buryat's dumpling), pancakes and the rest of hearty Russian fare. Also, there are a number of camping/fishing/hunting shops if you need to buy more gear.


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These deviled eggs are a tribute to my partner Chris Stewart's grandmother, Jennie Ruth. She was an inspiration to his cooking with her classic Southern ways, and here you see that tradition shining through.
Ingredients6 large eggs2 1/2 tablespoons sweet pickle relish1 tablespoon mayonnaise1 tablespoon yellow mustard1 1/2 teaspoons hot sauce
InstructionsBring a medium pot of water to a boil. Add eggs; boil for 14 minutes. Have a bowl of ice water ready. Transfer eggs to this ice bath. Once cool, remove from water and peel. Slice eggs in half lengthwise and carefully remove the yolks. Add the yolks, pickle relish, mayonnaise, yellow mustard, and hot sauce to the bowl of a blender or food processor; run until smooth. Alternatively, combine these ingredients in a medium bowl and work together using a fork until relatively smooth. Spoon into the whites.
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Joey Votto speaks to the media in Sarasota, Fla., Monday after being named the National League Most Valuable Player. / AP Photo/Chris O'Meara
CINCINNATI -- Joey Votto leads the world in on-base percentage and sincerity. He leads the National League in slugging percentage, on-base-plus-slugging percentage, conscientiousness, thoughtfulness, humbleness and a couple other ness-es that don't leap to mind. "It's pretty freakin' awesome beating out Albert Pujols for the MVP,'' Votto said Monday, after he earned 31 of 32 first-place votes.
Good for him. Good for the Reds, who have a homegrown talent to build brighter days around. Good for the rest of us, gifted with a star that fits the character and temperament of our town.
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Votto, being Votto, admitted he shed a few tears after learning he'd won the award. "How much it would have meant to my father'' who died in 2008, he said.
On the surface, the pairing of Votto and Cincinnati would seem a storybook romance: Unassuming guy comfortable with anonymity plays in town easy with same. Many happy returns.
And it might work out that way.
But probably not right away.
The Reds talked with Votto's agent Dan Lozano before last season, about a long-term deal. They will talk again, now that Votto is the MVP. The ante has been upped. Deal or no deal? Very likely, the latter.
Lozano doesn't have to recommend that Votto skip a deal and go to arbitration. You can be sure the notion has occurred already to the Reds first baseman. Votto's image as quiet, humble and conscientious is dead on. But he's also an intelligent guy who reads a lot. He knows what he's worth. He also knows he's under no obligation to be extra-nice to the Reds, who kept him in the minors for five-plus years and messed him up with a silly take-a-strike edict handed down by former GM Dan O'Brien.
I asked Votto how open he is to a long-term contract. "I don't know,'' he said. "You'd have to see the figures and the years.''
The bigger question is: Is it in the ballclub's best interest to throw cash piles at Joey Votto right now?
We'll skip the numbers, which would be as monstrous as they are boring, and go straight to the business of the matter. Baseball tries to keep down payroll costs by limiting what players can earn in the first six years of their careers. The first three years, a guy basically earns the major league minimum ($400,000) or whatever additional his team wants to pay him. That was Votto this past year. He made $550,000, which is like buying a new Maserati for 89 cents.
In years four through six, players are eligible for arbitration. (Votto is in Year 4.) Players get huge raises, even if their achievements don't merit them. Votto can expect to make between $7 million and $10 million next year. That sounds like a bunch of money, and it is. It's not nearly as much as the Reds would spend on, say, a four-year deal. Signing Votto long-term now might hamstring the club's need to fill other, more pressing needs. You do want a big-hitting leftfielder, right?
The Reds control Votto for the next three years. Beginning in 2014, Votto is a free agent. A four-year contract now buys out only one of Votto's free-agent seasons. What's the rush?
The Reds' opportunity window has just begun to open. They're loaded with young, cheap pitching. Votto is their cornerstone. Keeping him here sends a powerful message to fans. But he's going to be here for three years, regardless, and three years is a long time. Unless Votto is willing to take less money to stay anonymous in our little town, there is no urgency to get him signed.
And Votto will not take less money.
He's a nice guy. Not that nice.
Someone asked him Monday if he could put in perspective what it meant to be an MVP. Votto, ever thoughtful, said, "I'm going to need a little more time to get that perspective. I'm going to need distance and time to see the landscape.''
So will the Reds. Joey Votto was the most valuable player in the National League in 2010. That page has been turned. Let's see what 2011 brings. No need to rush things.


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Green Papaya Salad
Published: June 2013 Servings: 8
Dressing and Fried Shallots
- 1/3 cup (packed) light brown sugar
- 1/3 cup unseasoned rice vinegar
- 1/4 cup soy sauce
- 1 tablespoon hot chili paste (such as sambal oelek)
- 1/2 teaspoon toasted sesame oil
- 3 shallots, very thinly sliced crosswise, separated into rings
- 1 cup vegetable oil
- Kosher salt
- 1 green papaya, peeled, halved, seeded, julienned (about 6 cups)
- 1 cup fresh cilantro leaves with tender stems
- 1 cup torn fresh Thai basil leaves
Nutritional Information
8 servings, 1 serving contains: Calories (kcal) 190 Fat (g) 7 Saturated Fat (g) 1 Cholesterol (mg) 0 Carbohydrates (g) 30 Dietary Fiber (g) 2 Total Sugars (g) 18 Protein (g) 4 Sodium (mg) 770
PREPARATIONView Step-by-Step Directions
Dressing and Fried Shallots
Bring brown sugar, vinegar, and 1 cup water to a boil in a small saucepan, whisking to dissolve sugar; let cool. Whisk in soy sauce, chili paste, and sesame oil. Set aside.
Cook shallots and vegetable oil in a medium saucepan over medium heat, stirring occasionally, until shallots are golden brown and crisp, 10–12 minutes. Using a slotted spoon, transfer to a paper towel–lined plate to drain and season with salt. Let cool.
Toss papaya and dressing in a large bowl. Let sit, tossing occasionally, 15 minutes. Add cilantro and basil; toss to combine. Top with fried shallots.
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