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I wrote a Father's Day piece for the Huffington Post about what I learned about parenting from my awesome dad. You can read that here! It's a love letter/Dad's Day tribute to the man I call Poppy, complete with great photos.
Last night in the bathtub, Aidan and I were talking about one of his best friends from school, and he said, "He has three kids in his family."
"Yes, he does," I said.
"His mom has to take care of all of them," he said.
"Yup, sounds pretty hard, huh?"
"Why do they have three kids?" he asked.
"Because his mom and dad wanted three. Families can be all different sizes, like Daddy and I decided to only have one kid."
"You should have two," he said.
"A lot of families do have two kids," I said. "Would you like that?"
"Uh huh, then I'd have someone to play with," he said.
This is when my heart began to ache. In the past he's generally said he didn't want a sibling because he didn't want to share us. This was new and, as the mother of an only child, it is my biggest concern. As a mother who lost her second child, it is also my greatest sadness.
"Yeah, sometimes it makes me sad that you don't have a brother or sister," I said. "But, you know, we did try to have another baby, but she died before she was born. You remember Nina."
He nodded. "But I wouldn't want a girl to play with. I'd want a boy."
"You don't get to choose!" I said.
"Why did Nina die?"
"We don't know," I said.
"What did the doctor say?"
"The doctors didn't know either. No one could figure out why she died."
"How did you find out?"
"That she'd died?"
"Uh huh."
"Well, usually when a baby is in your belly, you can feel her moving, but one day I couldn't feel her moving anymore so I went to the doctor's office and they looked at my belly with an ultrasound machine. That's what they use to look inside your body. And they told me that she had died. They could tell because her heart wasn't beating anymore."
"And then what happened?"
"I had to deliver her, which means I had to get her out of my body."
"How did you do that?"
"They gave me medicine to help my belly contract. When a woman has a baby, the belly contracts to push the baby out."
I held my hands around my abdomen and squeezed my fingers together to show him what I meant by "contract."
"This is the way all moms deliver babies," I said. "It's how I delivered you, too. Only Nina had already died, so it was really sad."
"What happened after?"
"You mean after I had her?"
He nodded.
"Well, we saw her and held her and it was really sad."
"And then what happened?"
"Well, when people die, either you bury them in the ground or you burn them. It's called cremation, and you can keep the ashes or scatter them somewhere. That's what we did with Nina. We kept the ashes."
"Where are they?"
"Some of them are on our altar in a small jar, but not all of them fit, so some are in a box in my bedroom."
"Did they burn her with a fire?"
"I don't really know. They did it at a funeral home. I don't really know how that works."
"Do you have a picture of Nina?"
"We do."
"Can I see it?"
"Okay, let me see it."
"Well, it's not on my phone, it's on my computer. I'll have to show you later."
"Could you make another baby?"
"Well, we could," I said, "but Daddy and I sort of decided we didn't want to after Nina died."
"Why?" he asked.
"Well, it was so hard when she died. It's always sad when someone dies, but especially when a baby dies, because they don't get to live their life and we never had the chance to have Nina in our lives. It was really hard for us and we were a little scared of trying again. And also we thought a lot about what was best for our family and thought maybe it was best to have only one child. It's hard taking care of children, and we decided maybe one was best for us, but it does make us sad sometimes."
"How do you make babies?" he asked.
"Well, mommies and daddies make them together," I said.
"The dad creates something called sperm in his body and when the sperm meets an egg in the mom's body, together they create a baby."
"How does it get inside of the mom's body?"
"I don't really know how to explain that to you," I said, officially wimping out.
"Well, you could if you wanted to," he said.
"I don't really know how," I said. "Oh my God, it's time to wash the shampoo out of your hair!"
"How many buckets?"
"I don't know: five?"
"Okay, five."
How do you talk to a kid about death? And, even trickier, how do you talk to a kid about sex? My son seems perfectly capable of handling a frank conversation about death, but would he be comfortable learning about sex? He's only six years old (as of tomorrow), after all, but maybe he would be fine with it. Maybe I'm the squeamish one and he'd be perfectly fine.
How have other parents handled these questions? It is time to get him a copy of "Where Did I Come From?" I think that's how I learned the facts of life, but is six too soon?
One of the many things I love about my son is his creativity.
He's like a mini-scientist in the making. When he sees something he loves, it's not good enough to simply admire it from afar. He has to figure out how it works, then go home and try to make it himself.
He used to sit silently watching the audio kinetic sculpture at the science museum for hours. Seriously. I couldn't lure him away with dinosaurs, butterflies, the water play area, not even snacks. Nothing could match that little ball rushing down ramps, spinning wheels, dinging bells. Not surprisingly, he also fell in love with OK Go's This Too Shall Pass video, for which the band teamed with a group of engineers to make a massive Rube Goldberg structure that included crashing cars and smashing TV screens.
Once he was old enough to realize someone had actually built these things, he started obsessively watching Rube Goldberg and domino run videos on You Tube, then making them himself, using marbles, train and Hot Wheels tracks, cardboard boxes, toilet paper rolls, whatever he could get his hands on—of course we had to run out and buy dominoes…then more dominoes—and enlisting Harlan and me to help.
Same with the "What's the difference?" games he loves doing with his Seattle grandpa in the newspaper and those Highlights puzzles where you find objects hidden in a picture. He started making his own for the whole family, drawing two pictures that have, say, six differences we have to identify, and then these elaborate drawings where we have to find 10 or 20 objects that he's hidden. One morning he asked me to set an alarm so he could get up early and draw this crazy beach scene full of hidden objects first thing in the morning for Harlan and me to figure out over breakfast.
The other day we were visiting my friend Courtney and her family in San Diego and there were these hippie chicks making gigantic bubbles with simple homemade bubble-making contraptions at Ocean Beach, so all the kids could chase and pop them. A couple days later Aidan asked me to help him find sticks in the backyard. He wouldn't tell me what he was up to—it was a surprise—but he had me tie string to the end of each stick and then fill a bucket with bubble solution. When our bubble maker failed, we looked on You Tube, drove to the hardware store for dowels and the drugstore for glycerin.
While the result could use some tweaking—our bubbles pop faster than the hippie chicks'—it's still pretty impressive.
As he gets older, I assume my little scientist's skills will only improve and his projects will grow in complexity. As a parent, I encourage his interests, help him cut holes in cardboard boxes and carefully place rows of hundreds of dominoes on the floor and buy him as many Legos as we can afford. We also signed him up for a science class at a local art studio that he's completely obsessed with. But otherwise, I just sit back and enjoy his passions and hope curiosity continues to drive him and wait to see what he does next.
Since we lost our daughter, Nina, three years ago, my husband and I have struggled to decide whether or not we should try to have another child. And I have struggled to put that struggle into words.
Finally I was able to write a story that expressed my grief, my guilt, my ambivalence, my resignation and, finally, the glimmer of peace and acceptance that has crept into my days. Elle Magazine published the piece in the iPad and online editions and you can read it here.
Thanks for reading.
I haven't blogged in ages and I definitely don't have time today because I'm doing National Novel Writing Month again!
So, here's what I wrote on Facebook:
Today is November 1. You know what that means? It's the first day of National Novel Writing Month! I may be completely insane, but I'm going for it again. This year I'm what they call a "rebel," because I'm not starting a new project, but rather aiming to finish the one I started last year. The first time around, miracle of miracles, I did cross the 50,000-word finish line. This time I've got some additional road blocks in my path: Two more weeks of single momming. Another school holiday and another early release day before daddy's return. My parents coming for a week at Thanksgiving. Babysitters who don't return my texts. Waiting for Godot on the calendar (and Isabel Marant at H&M!). Three big fat delicious-looking library books vying for my attention. A much more jumbled writing plan than last time. And yet, and yet, I'm going for it!
The obstacle that I didn't mention is that I'm not sure if the book has room for another 50,000 words! Kind of an odd conundrum, but I guess if I hit the end of the book this month and have not completed 50,000 words, I'll still be pretty psyched.
So far, so good. I wrote more than 3,000 words on Day 1. Over the weekend I had a babysitter come for an hour and a half on Saturday and yesterday my friend Julie took Aidan to his swimming lesson so I could have a couple hours in a coffee shop. Today a mom friend is picking him Aidan from school and I'm meeting them at Lego Time at the Public Library. Very convenient, because that's where I am writing at this very instant. I brought lunch with me so I won't have to move my buns all day. Same mom is taking him to the playground on Wednesday. All in the name of giving me more time. To write.
Ran into her this morning and she said, "Have a productive day!"
I've written 5004 words so far. That feels very good.
What are you excited about this week? I just can't wait to write.
It has been a while since I have posted. And whenever it's been a while, I become overwhelmed. I start to sweat and worry that the first post has to be worthy somehow and put all kinds of pressure on myself.
I went out of town for five weeks this summer. We started in LA, went to a conference in Orange County, flew up to Seattle to see the in-laws, came back to LA and, from there, drove to San Diego, Santa Barbara, Fresno (for a funeral, of all things). I rarely post when I'm on vacation and this trip in particular was so packed, I didn't write at all.
At one point, Harlan said, "Let's get up early every morning and leave Aidan with your parents so we can go write for an hour or two at a coffee shop."
"Sounds great."
We didn't do it one single time. I didn't even make it to a yoga class until the day before our return to Boston. (And the class was so hard and I was so sore afterwards—yay, LA yoga!—I spent the flight cursing myself for being dumb enough to do my first class in a month the day before flying.)
I didn't write. I didn't work out. So what did I do?
I ran around with a cute dachshund named Gus, I watched Aidan run around with a cute dachshund named Gus, I played soccer in the park, I hiked up Temescal, I went to the beach (in Santa Monica, in San Diego, in Santa Barbara), I shopped on the Third Street Promenade, I watched a few movies (Blue Jasmine, Elysium and The Act of Killing in the theater, The Sessions and ET on DVD), I steamed and soaked at the Korean spa, I got a Thai massage on Abbott Kinney, I went to an English Beat concert (!), I visited friends, I visited family, I watched Aidan run through a kiddie pool, I watched Aidan fly a kite, I watched Aidan dig holes in the sand, I took him to his first water park (Aquatica, his new favorite place on the planet), I built Lego vehicles, I ate a lot of really good food…
Now that I'm back to my routine, there are lots of things that deserve a blog post:
• Being a single mom since Harlan left for LA to shoot a movie for six weeks.
• The insanity of after-school activities that I laugh at in other people and, at the same time, get completely swept up in myself.
• The joys of the yard sale: Purging the basement! Getting to know the neighbors! The am-I-ready-to-part-with-the-baby-gear debate! People paying me to get rid of my old crap! My kid hopped up on a month's-worth of cookies and lemonade!
• The joys of fall: Foliage! Sweaters! Yard sales! Getting back to work! Unexpected days of sunshine! Shipping the kid off to school again! Finding inventive recipes for CSA head-scratchers like kohlrabi!
• The publication—finally!—of my essay in Elle (the iPad edition and website) about deciding whether or not to have another child after losing our second.
• All the pregnant ladies/All the pregnant ladies… (They are everywhere. They are as big as houses. They make me grit my teeth and beat myself up and question my resolve all over again.)
• Trying to burn off my ugly xanthelasma with garlic in front of the tube every night!
So many blog posts, so little time. And, more relevantly, so little motivation.
How about this? I did spend a little time last weekend answering the question, "What parenting journey are you on?"
A fellow mom blogger, Annabel Ruffell, posed it and posted my response on her blog Journey for Earth. You can read it here and see that, while I may not be posting as much as I'd like, I'm also not asleep at the wheel.
Yesterday I made the mistake of clicking on the bio of a one-time colleague. Scanning the list of publications in which her work appears, I felt my chest tighten, my temples throb.
Her resume read like my own might if I hadn't crumpled it up and tossed it once I became a mom.
Sure, I've done a few things she hasn't, like having a novel published and writing a screenplay for a studio. But those accomplishments, along with the bulk of my other professional successes, occurred a long time ago, in the period prior to my greatest creation: my son.
I am aware, of course, that Aidan's existence and the magnificent work I do as his mom trump any article, book, screenplay or poem I could bring to life. But that fact never seems to help when I'm seething with jealousy.
Yes, this is plain, old-fashioned jealousy I'm feeling and, as always, I am aware that jealousy is an indicator of desire. My desires: I want to write more. I want someone to publish my work. I want, need even, further recognition—and validation—as a writer. Without those things, I end up reading friends' bios and then spending the first hour of what should be an energizing yoga class feeling grumpy and thinking bitchy thoughts.
It doesn't help that not so long ago I had a five-star writing week. Within two days, I completed two essays, both of which I'd been working on for a while, and confidently sent them to editors. In both cases, I received promising early responses: "I'd be happy to review it… Nudge me if you don't hear back in a couple days!" and, even better, "Passing this on to editor in chief…"
That same week, I completed a draft of the first hefty chunk of my book and sent three chapters plus a proposal to my editor.
That week I was simply bouncy with optimism and pride.
Then came the silence. Weeks, in fact, of dead, hear-a-pin-drop-type silence. From both editors and my agent.
"Summer is notoriously slow," a writer friend said when I called her stressed out. "Nothing happens around the 4th of July."
Sure, true, but I remained dismayed.
The same friend once told me that she thrives on rejection. It fires her up, inspires her even, so psyched she is to prove the motherfuckers wrong! I tried to harness that energy. In my head I started reworking one of my essays to submit to the New York Times' Anxiety column, should it be rejected from the national publication where it is currently languishing on an editor's desk. I enjoyed the exercise actually and started thinking maybe the Anxiety column was where the piece really belongs.
Anyone familiar with the column knows where this is headed.
Just this morning, during breakfast, I was perusing last week's Sunday Review. At the end of a fascinating piece about anxiety, I came across the following sentence: This is the final installment of Anxiety.
This was a blow I was unprepared to take. It struck me as personal. Almost expected. It seemed like a personal invitation hand-delivered to me to just stop it already with this silly fantasy that I can somehow claw my way back to the land of the working writer.
I was felled. Harlan's face dropped when I told him. He looked so sad for me. Then he hugged me, comforted me. I was in need of comfort.
Can I return from the blow? Can I channel the energy of my wise friend and get to a place where instead of feeling dejected and sorry for myself, I feel energized, galvanized even to prove the motherfuckers wrong? Can I claw my way back to my writing life? Do I even belong there anymore? Can I get back to a place where I believe that I belong there?
I'm sure as hell going to try.
On the afternoon of the Boston marathon, as my five-year-old son, Aidan, watched Scooby Doo and downtown Boston dissolved into mass panic, I was checking email in Cambridge.
"Did you hear there were two explosions at the marathon?" a friend wrote.
I dove into the early stories in the Times and Globe, watched footage on NBC News online, scanned the mottled tapestry of prayers and love for Boston that Facebook had become. My father and sister called and a rush of "Are you okay?" texts appeared from New York, Atlanta, Los Angeles, D.C. The whole world was trying to figure out what had happened and, in many cases, I was the one person they knew in Boston.
Their distress wasn't just about two bombs going off and hundreds of emergency vehicles descending upon the finish line: Our national confidence had been shaken yet again. Even in a post-9/11 world where we have to take off our sneakers and flip-flops at the airport before we can board a plane, we still bring our children—our precious children—to public events and believe they will be safe.
I was living in New York on September 11th, 2001. After a disorienting morning, I made my way to the office where I worked as an editor for the film website indieWIRE. When I arrived on Fifth Avenue, I joined a crowd of strangers silently facing downtown Manhattan.
"What are we looking at?" I asked someone.
"The World Trade Center," he said.
I stared down the long avenue, trying to make sense of the building I saw in the distance standing in a cloud of smoke. How could I have recognized the towers that had long graced our familiar skyline? There was only one. The South Tower had just collapsed.
Later that day, I hooked up with two friends and together we wandered the streets, visited a church, tried to donate blood. We hugged, cried and eventually settled onto bar stools at an East Village dive full of other aimless, dazed New Yorkers to watch Mayor Rudy Giuliani give a rousing speech on TV.
New York was my home, my family, the center of the universe. When malevolent strangers came in and stabbed my town in the heart, I felt is as if they had stabbed me in the heart, too. On September 11th, I was young and single. When I wept in that bar, I didn't truly believe anything like that could ever happen to me. Being close to it, observing it, knowing people who had first- or second-hand stories was as close as I ever believed such terror would come to me. Now that I have a child, the idea that something like that could happen to me or, worse, him, is so awful that I can't bear to think about it. I have no tears for strangers—or for entire cities. It didn't occur to me to attend a candlelight vigil for the victims of the Boston attack. My only thought on that day was to protect my son. My son. My son. My son.
After talking to my husband, who called to say he was making his way home from his office in downtown Boston three miles from the bombsite, I called a friend who had gone to watch the marathon with her son who is Aidan's age. We were supposed to go with them, but opted for a local playground instead. Aidan was getting over a cold and I wanted to stay closer to home. Now all I could think was: it could have been us. My friend, who had been a couple of miles from the blasts shortly before they occurred, was shaken. She was relieved to be home, but sad, frazzled. "Everyone was so full of joy out there," she told me. "It was a day that was just so joyful."
When I first learned of the attack, I was horrified that someone could do such a thing, horrified at the desecration of a public event that celebrates strength, endurance and personal achievement, horrified that a child just three years older than my own little boy had been killed. And when Tamarlan Tsarnaev, one of the suspects, was killed and his brother Dzhokhar left alone, I also couldn't help but feel for this sweet-faced 19-year-old who was being hunted by every law enforcement officer in the Boston area, a kid, really, that a friend's daughter who knew him from school described as, "the nicest guy."
I thought about his mother and what she must be feeling—I couldn't imagine, really. I wanted to understand what had made this boy commit such a bloody act. When he was finally found cowering, bloodied and freezing, in a boat, I found it incredibly sad that this young man's life would be destroyed by this one reckless, unforgivable, act. It wasn't until later that I thought about his victims, both dead and crippled, not to mention the endless ripple effect of friends and family of those whose lives would never be the same.
While September 11 left me a walking basket case, on Patriot's Day, it was only when Cambridge went into lockdown that my emotions kicked in. Part of me believed lockdown was an overly extreme measure that was sure to cause unnecessary panic, as everyone remained inside, glued to the manhunt unfolding on TV, as they searched for a criminal who was "armed and dangerous" and out there, somewhere. But at the same time, as the threat moved closer to home, I was relieved that the local government was calling for maximum security.
As unlikely it was that the suspect was anywhere near my home—and my son—my head filled with images of bullets flying, a desperate, solitary figure crouched in my backyard, a hostage situation involving a madman and my beautiful boy, a stranger holding a gun to my child's head. When my husband and son sneaked out into the warm Friday afternoon to play cards on the back porch, I forced them to come back inside.
"Lockdown means stay inside with the doors locked," I said, determined to get them back inside, even as they shot each other "Mom's such a worry-wart" looks.
It was only when the suspect had been apprehended that I was finally able to relax. The tightness in my chest released and I ran into the living room, where my husband was on the phone with his parents, and announced, "They got him! He's in custody. He's in custody." For a moment, I was elated, because I knew my son was safe, at least for now.
Aidan was up coughing half the night.
Poor kid. He made it through winter with nothing more than sniffles and sneezes and then in the last two weeks has been slammed with a stomach bug, a fever, an ear infection and now this hacking cough that sounds suspiciously like a barking baby seal.
Aha, the tell-tale barking seal sounds, otherwise known as the croup.
We've been visited by this beast before and we know what to do: steam. There's really not a whole helluva lot else you can do.
Last night I gave him dose after dose of homeopathic cough syrup, which had no effect, cranked the humidifier and put him to bed early. (I also gave him a bath and washed his hair, which would normally be a no-no when he's sick, but he had his swimming lesson in the morning! So after a quick internal debate, I opted to get the chlorine off, even if it meant sending a coughing kid to bed with wet hair, and kicked myself as he shivered afterwards, his wet limbs covered in goosebumps.)
Between about midnight and 4am, Aidan woke himself—and us—up coughing too many times to count.
"Mommy, can you sing to me?" he'd say, as I sleepwalked into his room. "Can you read me a story?"
Each time I'd stagger in, he'd be guzzling water, coughing up a lung, searching for Kitty, grinning at me.
Between about 3 and 4:00, none of us slept, as he was coughed almost non-stop. I gave him more useless cough syrup, suggested more water, checked the humidifier (still steaming away). Harlan had had enough of my hippie mama remedies and went downstairs to fetch the Tylenol, which he thought might help him sleep, and a cough drop from my nightstand. It was neon blue and Aidan liked it for about three seconds.
"It's minty," he said, "too minty," and spit it out.
I found a pack of honey-flavored ones and he liked the idea of that, but only managed to hold it in his gooey finger and lick it for a few seconds before declaring it "too minty," too, and dumping it in a bowl I gave him to keep by his bed, in case he wanted it later.
I climbed in bed with him for a while, but he was too obsessed with stroking my face and telling me how beautiful I am and how much he loves me to sleep (motherhood rocks!), so I gave him a big shmoogle (just made that up, it's a rapturous hybrid hug/kiss/cuddle) and fell exhausted back into my own bed, where I wrapped my arms around tired hubby and almost passed out until the cat started bellowing. Harlan went down and threw a glass of water in his face—his latest trick for getting him to behave, which works for a minute. Then the cat forgets all about it by 4:30 the next morning, when he starts his morose serenade all over again.
Harlan texted me this morning to make sure I'd given Aidan a cough drop to take to school with him. I told him Aidan doesn't understand cough drops.
The rest of the conversation went like this:
"Fine…but it helped last night."
"No! He kicked it for awhile and put it in a bowl by his bed," and then: "Licked."
"But his coughing stopped right away after he tried it," he said.
"I think it was the Tylenol," I said.
"Don't be so anti cough drop. Embrace Western medicine."
Last night I did finally embrace the Western medicine called Tylenol and I believe it's what allowed him to sleep. That said, it's easier to get me to cave at 4:00 in the morning. Basically I'm reluctant to put any type of medication into my son that they don't sell at Cambridge Naturals. (I went there today to get a new brand of homeopathic cough syrup). That is, unless he's in pain. When my baby is really hurting, my hippie mama morality flies out the window and it's antibiotics all the way for the ear infection, Tylenol for fevers and even a cough drop for croup if we can keep it in his mouth for long enough to do the trick.
I ran into a new friend at the gym today—very cool dancer/filmmaker mom I met on the soccer field who moved here from Brooklyn—and she suggested Benadryl. I have a bottle on hand in case of bee stings. But I suppose if the coughing got bad enough and I was delirious enough, I would give it a shot.
But that's only if Plan A doesn't work:
Tonight we blast the hot shower and hang out in the steamy bathroom. I can see us now, sweaty, on the floor, joking around, maybe playing Uno. Then, counter-intuitively, once we're dried off and bundled up, we step out into the cool night air and take big gulps of it.
These were the suggestions of Aidan's school nurse and they're the kind of cures this hippie mama tends to prefer.
I finished reading Stephen King's On Writing a few weeks ago and have been meaning to write more about the things he says that terrify me.
Last time I talked mainly about the impossible goals he sets for writers and how badly they stressed me out. But almost as soon as I posted, I realized that there were other things that stress me out even more than being required to write for 4-5 hours a day.
Here's a biggie:
Stephen King does not believe in outlines. And he doesn't much like plot.
He has this wonderful, mystical belief that stories are like fossils that already exist somewhere, buried deep in the earth, in a lost canyon or maybe in your backyard, and it is the writer's job to unearth it.
"The writer's job is to use the tools in his or her toolbox to get as much of each one out of the ground intact as possible," he says. "No matter how good you are, no matter how much experience you have, it's probably impossible to get the entire fossil out of the ground without a few breaks and losses. To get even most of it, the shovel must give way to more delicate tools: airhose, palm pick, perhaps even a toothbrush. Plot is a far bigger tool, the writer's jackhammer. You can liberate a fossil from hard ground with a jackhammer, no argument there, but you know as well as I do that the jackhammer is going to break almost as much stuff as it liberates. It's clumsy, mechanical, anti-creative. Plot is, I think, the good writer's last resort and the dullard's first choice."
I plotted out my first book, Room for Love, meticulously. I spent months hammering out the plot before I started writing the actual book. I also plotted out every screenplay I've written. Plot is the hardest part for me, much harder than character or dialogue, which come relatively easily, so I figured it was best to work out the plot beforehand, create an outline that I could use as a map, and the story would flow. And it did: The story flowed.
"I'm a plotter," I told myself and the audiences at my book readings. "I'm an outliner." And I've always been perfectly comfortable with that. Until now.
"The good writer's last resort and the dullard's first choice"? How can any self-respecting writer be comfortable with that?
He goes on:
"I lean more heavily on intuition, and I have been able to do that because my books tend to be based on situation rather than story… I want to put a group of characters in some sort of predicament and watch them try to work themselves free. My job isn't to help them work their way free, or manipulate them to safety—those are the jobs which require the noisy jackhammer of plot—but to watch what happens and then write it down…
A strong enough situation renders the whole question of plot moot, which is fine with me. The most interesting situations can usually be expressed as a What if question:
What if vampires invaded a small New England village? (Salem's Lot)
What if a policeman in a remote Nevada town went berserk and started killing everyone in sight? (Desperation)…
These were all situations which occurred to me, while showering, while driving, while taking my daily walk and which I eventually turned into books. In no case were they plotted, not even to the extent of a single note jotted on a single piece of scrap paper."
Nice, right? Listening to Stephen King wax poetic about his process makes me want to write like he does: intuitively, spontaneously, without overthinking, from the heart, as they say.
As if all that weren't enough, King also stresses how important it is to write a first draft in total isolation without showing a word to a soul. Once the draft is finished, you're allowed to show it to one trusted reader, preferably a spouse (if there's one chomping at the bit), most certainly not a writing workshop, the whole species of which he has not-so-nice things to say about. (I've been sharing my work with a writing workshop every 2-3 weeks for the last 2-3 years.)
While hubby is reading (and keeping his opinions to himself), you (the writer) are supposed to stick that precious first draft into a drawer and keep it there for at least six weeks while you work on something else instead.
"Resist temptation," he says, lest you get drawn into rewrites (and the self-loathing and/or self-congratulations that come with them) before you are ready.
"When you come to the correct evening (which you well may have marked on your office calendar), take your manuscript out of the drawer. If it looks like an alien relic bought at a junk-shop or yard sale where you can hardly remember stopping, you're ready. Sit down with your door shut… a pencil in your hand, and a legal pad by your side. Then read your manuscript over…
If you've never done it before, you'll find reading your book over after a six-week layoff to be a strange, often exhilarating experience. It's yours, you'll recognize it as yours, even be able to remember what tune was on the stereo when you wrote certain lines, and yet it will also be like reading the work of someone else, a soul-twin, perhaps. This is the way it should be, the reason you waited. It's always easier to kill someone else's darlings than it is to kill your own."
There is much in Stephen King's book that inspires me. Truly, the book fired me up. And yet there is also much that made me feel bad about my process. That would not be the case if my process were working. Criticism only gnaws at you if there is truth to it and for me, there is truth to what King says.
I avoid writing by instead planning to write, i.e. writing notes, outlines, etc.
I get derailed by my writing group's notes.
I reread and rewrite, rather than giving myself the time and space necessary to gain objectivity about what I have written.
It's time to sit my ass in my chair and write for 3-4 hours a day. Or at least 2.
Consider my wrists slapped.
After completing On Writing, I took a deep breath and made some decisions. I polished the outline for my current book, but left the plot in broad strokes. I needed a time line for this particular book, because there are some tricky chronology issues that need to make sense, but I left large plot questions unanswered. I also told my writing group I wouldn't submit any more chapters until this draft is complete.
I feel good. I feel ready.
And I end with a quote that simply inspires me (as opposed to scaring the shit out of me):
"I have written because it fulfilled me. Maybe it paid off the mortgage on the house and got the kids through college, but those things were on the side—I did it for the buzz. I did it for the pure joy of the thing. And if you can do it for the joy, you can do it forever."


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- Address:
2641 Connecticut Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20008Neighborhood:
Woodley Park
- Cuisine:
Middle EasternPrice: $30 and under
Lebanese Taverna - Washington DC
- Dining Style: Casual Dining
- Website: http://www.lebanesetaverna.com/
- Phone: (202) 265-8681
- Hours of Operation:
Serving Lunch:
Monday - Sunday: 11:30a.m. - 4:00p.m.
Serving Dinner:
Monday - Thursday: 4:00p.m. - 10:00p.m.
Friday & Saturday 4:00p.m. - 11:00p.m.
Sunday 4:00p.m. - 10:00p.m.
Happy Hour:
Monday - Friday 4:00p.m. - 7:00p.m. in the lounge and bar. Appetizers and drinks $4-$6.00
- Payment Options: AMEX,Diners Club,Discover,MasterCard,Visa
- Cuisine: Vegetarian / Vegan, Mediterranean, Middle Eastern
- Executive Chef: Joseph Comfort
- Dress Code: Casual Dress
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74 reviews since August 1, 2014
- Food4.4Service4.2
- Ambiance4.1Noise LevelModerate
neighborhood gem (41)fit for foodies (39)good for groups (33)great for lunch (19)great for outdoor dining (15)special occasion (14)kid-friendly (11)hot spot (11)romantic (9)notable wine list (6)great for brunch (5)late-night find (3)vibrant bar scene (1)Show More
- This is a Good OneThrowsguyVIPDined on 11/25/2014Lebanese Taverna is a chain with quality varying from location to location. This one is one of the best, if not the best. I've been back several times whereas there are others I would never go back to.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- GREATNeunuebelVIPDined on 11/24/2014Simply wonderful. GREAT FOOD and a beautiful place.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Great food. Kitchen timing a little off.FoodforthoughtDined on 11/19/2014We used to love to eat at Lebanese Taverna when we lived in the area-- prior to the renovation. The updated dining room with the higher arched ceilings and open bar area is a nice change and is quite an attractive makeover. The restaurant is still quite loud, though, so be forewarned. I ate there recently with an out of town guest on a Wed. night. We split several items from the mezze menu including the lamb/beef sliders, baba ganoush, chicken wings with lemon and garlic; shrimp and the cauliflower and chick peas. The sliders were my favorite, and my companion, a non-red meat eater, really liked the zesty shrimp. Overall, the food was excellent except for the cauliflower which was just "ok". The servings are a decent size and we honestly could have been happy with one less dish. The server we had was very pleasant and my comments below are really directed at the kitchen's timing which needs improvement. The server told us that the dishes would be brought out as they were prepared. This is fine and what we expect when eating small plates. However, the kitchen sent out all the dishes at exactly the same time. This meant that some of the food got cold fairly quickly -- most of the dishes we had ordered were designed to be served warm. In addition, the tables here are small and there was not enough room for the food on the table. I ended up putting the basket of pita bread (which was delicious, by the way) on the bench beside me which was pretty awkward. The timing problem seemed to be pretty common. The table next to us received their full meals minutes after they had started their appetizers. I guess one way to deal with the timing is to try to control the flow of food by ordering a couple of mezze and then ordering more once you received your first plates. But you shouldn't have to control the kitchen like this at a restaurant at this price level.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- satisfiedcustomerDined on 11/8/2014As always the food was excellent. This time we loaded up on appetizers for our main meal. Enjoyed it all. Will be back soon!Special Features:
- Terrible ServiceOpenTable Diner Since 2005VIPDined on 11/8/2014The food was good; the service was the worst i've had ever. The waiter disappeared after taking our order. We saw several tables served beforee us who were seated after us.
- AuthenticshadowDined on 11/8/2014Authentic Lebanese food which is very good. I found both locations in DC and Baltimore to be similar in quality. Consistently good.Special Features:
- Love this placeTribecaLuncherVIPDined on 11/8/2014This our favorite restaurant when visiting DC. Great location- a Ross from Woodsley Station (red line) and within walking distance to the zoo.... Ornate lamps of middle eastern decor Love the chicken, lamb and beef shawarma, tabbouleh, hummus, babaghanoush, and the freshly baked bread. Our server was just wonderful.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Great Place for groupsOpenTable Diner Since 2011Dined on 10/26/2014Went to the place on sunday afternoon with a group of 10 people. We were there for brunch but were told they told longer had the brunch menu. Their website still had the brunch menu available so we were puzzled with the new findings. The server was great and attentive. The food came out quickly and was great. All of us enjoyed the food and the ambiance was great as well. Would recommend this place for anyone looking to explore a great place.Special Features:
- Wonderful service for a Bday groupJohnDined on 10/18/2014Sonny took wonderful care of our 7-person party. He made the thoughtful suggestion that we try the family-style chef menu, custom-ordered a dessert sampler for us to share, and made sure we had plenty to drink. Truly a class act! Oh, and the food was delicious, too!Special Features:
- DCdinerVIPDined on 10/18/2014Noise level on Saturday night made conversation difficult.I would recommend this to a friend.
- Not your same-old Lebanese TavernaOpenTable Diner Since 2010VIPDined on 10/18/2014Lebanese Taverna has long been in our family repertoire for dining at the Woodley restaurant and for its catering service. We took out of town friends here on a busy Saturday night and were impressed by the updated, hopping ambiance of the recently renovated Woodley location. The food and service were great, and the Chef's Plate options make the price affordable. After enjoying the catering arm so frequently, it was a treat to have the fresh bread (is naan the right word for Lebanese bread/) The only drawback is that it was so noisy, which made it hard for our table of 4 to have a comfortable conversation.Special Features:
- Reliably great Lebanese foodfoodfunVIPDined on 10/17/2014Lebanese Taverna on Connecticut Ave right across from the Woodley Park metro has been a reliably great place for Lebanese food. Busy and noisy, filled with millenials, families and seniors - everyone, the service is always speedy, the waiters friendly and the food special. We dined on small plates - great eggplant dishes, sliders of chicken, beef and lamb on pita - the pita is the best in town and just keeps coming. I love the raw lamb tartar (kibbeh nayeh). For home parties, the catering service is super.Special Features:
- Nice place, decent foodOpenTable Diner Since 2006VIPDined on 10/13/2014The atmosphere is very attractive, though it can be a bit noisy if crowded. The food was good, but I would say there was nothing that really stood out. If you're in the mood for typical Lebanese food, they do a decent job here for a reasonable price. My one big gripe is the prices of the wine list--the wines are incredibly marked up with hardly any affordable choices.
- Just OkJimsDined on 10/11/2014The food was ok, I wasn't totally impressed. My salad was kind of bland. The lamb dishes were heavy.Special Features:
- Always a great mealLindalovesfoosDined on 10/10/2014We now go to this restaurant routinely with our kids, 6&9 and it is always a great experience. We love the the puffy bread and olive oil and zaytar. I love the fatteh with eggplant and my duaghter enjoys the grilled chicken and rice. My husbands chicken farouj was juicy and tender send made great left overs. The service is always friendly.Special Features:
- Always a Great ExperienceGirlwithaplanDined on 10/6/2014My colleagues and I found the Lebanese Taverna while attending a convention at the Omni Shoreham Hotel a few years ago. Since that occasion, we have been back to host business dinners while in the DC area. I have brought friends to the restaurant for a grande finale meal while visiting the city. Since we are not from the area, it is wonderful to know that we will be enjoying great food and service whenever we choose the Lebanese Taverna.Special Features:
- Well Executed Lebanese FoodTdalecVIPDined on 9/28/2014The warm bread with za'atar-laced olive oil was the great start. After that, everything else tasted like Lebanon, too. Even down to the Lebanon-brewed beer.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Just LovelyCherylspeaksDined on 9/20/2014As always this place is fantastic. It must have been a while since I've been here because they have remodeled and it is FABULOUS. The food of course is always on point. A small group of us had dinner on Saturday night. Lovely.Special Features:
- Two times in one DayFamilyskitripVIPDined on 9/19/2014I ate here two times in one day. Lunch and Dinner - great food both times and everyone enjoyed it. Enough Said!!!!Special Features:
- Great appetizersLolachicaVIPDined on 9/18/2014Visitor to the area, dropped in for an early dinner. Enjoyed people watching on the outdoor patio. Tried the mixed plate sampler and it was all delish!Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- redo and increased noise levelOpenTable Diner Since 2010Dined on 9/12/2014Regular meeting goer in DC. Frequently stay in Woodly Park area. Love the LT, however, with its stunning renovation, the noise level is out of control. you can only comfortably talk to the person next to you and directly across from you. adding sound absorbing materials would be very beneficial. Food continues to remain outstanding as is the service. Have been dining at this venue for more than 25 years. Always try to squeeze in a meal at LT and bring friends.Special Features:
- Loved it!RichnKathyDined on 9/6/2014My wife and I have been to Lebanese Taverna a number of times and we've never been disappointed. We took a friend who was in town for a convention to dinner and she had a wonderful time! The food was delicious(as always), and the service was wonderful! We would never hesitate to recommend your restaurant to friends because we know you guys get it done! Thanks again for a wonderful dinner experience!!Special Features:
- Excellent foodLeahgrrlDined on 9/4/2014I picked this place for dinner while in DC for a conference. The food was really excellent quality, tasted authentic, very fresh. A little noisy in the restaurant, because it was busy, but we still got good waiter service, and they accommodated the 2 extra people in our party even though we only had reservations for 3. I'm still thinking about that food, and now all my friends love Lebanese food!Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Still greatDeuce15VIPDined on 9/3/2014Great little place - very authentic. Just down the hill from the MarriottSpecial Features:
- Very good LebaneseProfessorFoodieDined on 8/29/2014Very good mezze makes a nice late dinner. This is a very good place for quality Lebanese food. I have had better but only rarely in the USA.
- Consistently deliciousLindalovesfoosDined on 8/29/2014We love the food here. The service is always friendly and attentive. Recently we have begun taking our children, 6 & 9 here and the whole family enjoys dinner. The tabouli is fresh, the eggplant fatteh, is a favorite and my children love the platters. We always have a good time, never feel rushed and always leave satisfied.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- busy because of conferenceworldtravellerVIPDined on 8/29/2014food is fine but the wait, even with an open table reservation took a long time. No where to wait and the place was packed
- Great for lunchmsfwdcDined on 8/26/2014The food continues to be wonderful and innovative. Prices are very reasonable, especially for the quality and variety of the menu. I've enjoyed Lebanese Taverna since it first opened years ago. Service and food at the various locations is consistently high quality. The settings are attractive and well maintained. They would be suitable to a more formal meal but the warm and welcoming atmosphere is good for casual dining as well. My friend who is also a long time Taverna patron agreed. We always look forward to dining there and will return soon.Special Features:
- SolidOpenTable Diner Since 2011Dined on 8/15/2014This is the third time I've had the privilege to dine at Lebanese Taverna and, once again, it was worth the wait. My go-to choice (the falafel sandwich was refreshing and perfect for a warm summer day) did not disappoint; my husband enjoyed the chicken shawarma, but admitted he's had better. The fig liqueur-based cocktail was AMAZING: a pièce de résistance! Though I've only had lunch here, I imagine the ambience at night/on the weekends would be stellar.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- abandoned by serverDancingbearDined on 8/15/2014On Friday on the patio our server had difficulty keeping up with his orders and we could not get his attention. Half way through lunch our original server abandoned us and we had to engage another server to finish the meal service.....I would recommend this to a friend.
- Great foodlebaneseDined on 8/14/2014Great food. However the outdoor service needs improvement. I dined here before and the service inside was outstanding.Special Features:
- RelaxingEleanorDined on 8/9/2014We ate outside on a pleasant summer evening. We enjoyed the two sampler platters which had many Lebanese specialties, all prepared and presented beautifully. The waitstaff was welcoming and professional.Special Features:
- The following 475 reviews are from the Lebanese Taverna - Washington DC reviews archive.
- Overall great experienceAniaSDined on 7/30/2014A group of us went for lunch durinto take advantage of the 35th anniversary menu. The prices were great! food was really good and the restaurant is beautiful. Definitely would go back.Special Features:
- JaniceJaniceDined on 7/29/2014I had not been to this LT location in quite a while. The interior is quite lovely and the food good as always. But the bathrooms are an abomination! Seriously, they need to rethink the unisex idea and go back to separate womens and mens stalls. Three of the stalls I entered had little puddles of pee at the base of the toilet! Come on guys, aim better! The stall I finally settled for had used toothpicks on the counter. One of the friends I was with was equally disgusted by the filthy stalls. I would not go back to this location because of the bathrooms!
- DisappointingfoodloverDined on 7/19/2014I had high expectations but have been by and large disappointed. The appertizers were good, especially the falafel, but the bread was too crispy (as if it was left in the oven for too long) and the main course (mixed grill) was a big disappointment, especially the lamb and the ground meat (the chicken was OK). As for deserts, the baklawa was not a match to those I ate at other restaurants.
- Always goodbeafishDined on 7/19/2014Lebanese Taverna has been the go to place for Middle Eastern food in DC for so many years and they do not disappoint. Lots of choices for a vegetarian and meat eaters as well. The service was swift and no waiting. The dining room is very large with high ceilings. The outdoor seating was packed and is great and very lively since there are several outdoor restaurants along this block. Parking is challenging so avoid driving if you are able, walk or take the Metro which is right across the street.Special Features:
- Great experienceFoodieFishDined on 7/8/2014My friend and I really enjoyed the atmosphere. The service was outstanding as well. Get the Shrimp Arak for an appetizer!Special Features:
- Food good / Service excellentFOODIEDined on 7/4/2014Overall, the food was excellent. Our waiter, who is originally from Turkey, was excellent. He was extremely friendly, which made our dining experience at Lebanese Taverna a very memorable one. I will def go there every time I visit D.C. going fwd.Special Features:
- We're here - again.TribecaLuncherVIPDined on 7/3/2014The chicken and beef shwarma, tabbouleh, hummus, babaghanoush and bread are so delicious. Whenever we visit DC, having lunch or dinner at Lebanese Taverna is always on our agenda. Good food, nice decor, friendly service, close to the zoo, great location - right across from the Adams Morgan/ Woodley Park station (red line). We keep coming back.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- AmsterdamDined on 6/30/2014Lebanese Taverna is a place to go with friends and family. It is the best Lebanese food I've ever had in the USA! Service can take a little long when it is really busy, but it is worth waiting for. The manager is very accomodating, and people are gentle and friendly. I'd highly recommend it!Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.

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Sounds rocking and funky... @Melissa, what's your problem? So what if Dr. Funk has a site that shows all forms of music and entertainment. I'd rather come here than where most people like you go... National Enquirer?? Anyway, Dr. Funk... great job as always. Although it's a short clip, it's a very promising one and I'm looking forward to something great from these girls and Prince.
Watch Now! New PRINCE Song Video Rehearsal; Hints At New Album In 2013
We told you to follow Hannah Ford's Facebook Fan Page for some goodies and she dropped one from rehearsal with PRINCE this morning. This time, video.
We asked you last time if "The water was warm enough for Donna", with many of you not understanding it. Donna Grantis is the new guitarist for the NPG and it appears this rehearsal is also her audition. We think she got the part!
"Screwdriver" is obviously a new song and is completely rocking! We LOVE the full band sound. We just want a longer version.
Thank you Hannah and PRINCE!
What do U think?-DocFB
Diagnosis: Interesting message during video.....
UPDATE: We had a studio version preview along with lyrics. It is not coming through the way it was intended and had to be taken down. Hope U guys enjoyed it while it was up....
Narcissism by Proxy? The entire purpose for the thread and even this site is the promotion and marketing of one individual. Hint: It's not Rogers. Regardless, it will be interesting to see if this ever comes to fruition. It's a very dynamic world and a volatile industry. Days of innovation are long past for some. Prince will always have loyal fans and no matter what he puts out they will adore him at the end product. I feel it will probably go the same way as Whoopie's project.
Jeepers that sucked. Okay, well... their are skilled musicians, but Prince... its like he's an elite musician but... he's like stale or lost the mojo or... just misses... I don't know. Its like musical creative subpar meandering, album after album, single after single.. for what? - the last 15 or so years? Just forgettable stuff. I find it interesting Prince doesn't play with his peers, you know, same level musicians with similar experience, age group. Always using young talent to make himself look... younger. It's all image, but the FAMS, oh they say the music matters. As for Ford. ... sigh... well, talented drummer sure! Yes! But careful, lady... do some research on former female fellow musicians/singers going waaay back, careful with contracts, verbal or otherwise... just careful... I wish you luck.
Sounds awesome! Prince as I love him the most - ROCKING!!!! Yeah!!! Can't wait for 2013 and all the purple surprises!!!!!
release it NOW
I'm betting it never gets released and goes straight to the vault. That would be funny.
Whether it's objectivity in one way or another meaning even exists, is also controversial. but "y'all know what it is".
From what i hear it sonuds good but some of you so call prince fans that love him find so way to put is music down has we all grow as being a prince fan change is good love him while we got him Prince roger nelson you roc k now bring on the new music 2013 watch out
Interesting...sounds rockin but Prince has "pulled the plug" on so many projects over the years we will have to wait and see what actually hits the shelves....
Love it! Love Prince! He is a genius musician!
Love it!! Hope it stays raw AND 3-piece!
Rock & Roll is ALIVE!
aint nothing but a prince party.....
Not coming through? Uh huh. Eye get it...
Ahh, The Copyright Act of 1976 might prove to be a Great thing...
This song is going to be a catchy one. Prince's music has always been satisfying and I can't wait for more new music from him, I love Prince always.
I find this very well, thelate and aged musical experiment of Prince and also with new NPG cast, this holds yeeeeeees the life newly.
I am super excited! I am a fan aka friend of Prince for all my purple life!!! Prince rocks!!! NPG got jams!
Freaking Flip!!! Finally, I knew old boy would come with something strong. Fingers crossed this is the vibe of the whole album. Can't wait!
I hear a super dupa revival of Endorphin-machine energy. Super, we need it! Whole album please Prince :)
Featuring Donna Grantis (guitar), Ida Nieslen, (bass), Hannah Ford (drums), Prince (guitar, vox)
WOW! An all girls band and a new rockin song! Cannot wait! p.s yes...what's up with the bootleg message?
This video is looking so ole skool...LOVE IT!!!
This sounds awesome!
Wait, Prince plays guitar? :-O I thought the R&R Hall of Fame set was CGI'd :p Did I really just see the word "bootleg" associated with a Prince sanctioned clip? Maybe the Mayans are right, the end of the world is 12/21/12. jk Sidenote: to all the people who believe the world's ending next week, put your money where your mouth is and sign over all your possessions to me :)
very interesting
Its a "MasterPiece"
I'd love to hear the full version of this, hopefully a new album in 2013 might mean more shows I cant believe its been 5 years since I saw him live.


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[12:34] <th> (this was a "ping") [12:36] <th> netrunner: oh it was you sending the mail about the voip conf [12:36] <th> netrunner: perhaps i should tell you that already had about 3 voip conferences [12:36] <th> smp and me joined the devmeeting that way [12:38] <th> fake: wrt 2004091506033020931: neon-0.24.7 was needed for 1.1.0-rc2 already; neon was always needed if you wanted https:// (despite you pass some ssl enabling options to the svn-distributed-neon) [12:45] <netrunner> th: so where are the documents about it? ;) [12:46] <th> netrunner: wiki:/archive/ [12:47] <th> or wiki:/devmeeting-topics.txt [12:47] <th> dunno who was responsible for committing a log [13:07] ringo (firstname.lastname@example.com) joined #rocklinux. [13:10] <fake> th: oh, i missed that version it seems [13:11] <th> fake: but you know wiki:/scratch/subversion-cleanup.txt ? [13:11] <fake> th: i know i need neon, but i wasn't aware my version was outdated [13:11] <fake> th yes, yes [13:12] <th> ok. clifford confirmed lately that it's on his todo. [13:12] <th> (the cleanup) [13:18] <blindcoder> hi [13:19] <th> hi blindcoder [13:20] <blindcoder> so, is the wiki now the #1 communication medium? [13:21] <fake> surely not [13:22] <blindcoder> then what is? [13:23] Action: th is remembering "Subject: [rock-devel] high traffic, low traffic" [13:23] <th> blindcoder: you are completely right. [13:23] <blindcoder> yes, and I don't remember having got an answer, so I'm asking here [13:24] <th> blindcoder: there is missing a lot of information [13:24] <th> even information on the website [13:24] <blindcoder> th: yes, that's why I want to know where I can get it for the time where I can't read each and every patch in submaster [13:25] <th> blindcoder: i really don't know [13:25] <th> blindcoder: perhaps commit mails can help? 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[13:46] <blindcoder> nzg: I'll take you up on it when it isn't vaporware anymore :) [13:47] <th> blindcoder: i'd really appreciate such work too. [13:54] <blindcoder> I'll do my very best starting (hopefully) soon [13:56] <blindcoder> ok, gotta get back to work now [13:56] <blindcoder> see you [13:57] <th> cya blindcoder [14:02] <nzg> cu blindcoder [14:05] De_Elsasser (~firstname.lastname@example.com) left irc: Remote closed the connection [14:08] BW298 (~email@example.com) joined #rocklinux. [14:09] <BW298> hi. could someone please tell me the IP of lart.info? [14:10] Nick change: BW298 -> owl [14:18] BW923 (~firstname.lastname@example.com) joined #rocklinux. [14:18] <owl> hi BW923 [14:18] Nick change: BW923 -> true_ [14:19] <true_> hi owl [14:19] <th> 184.108.40.206 [14:19] <owl> thx. 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[16:20] <th> hi treo [16:33] <treo> hi th, I think today we can go on :) [16:33] <treo> btw. have you seen it already? gnome 2.8 is out [16:33] <treo> s,is out, was released [16:35] mnemoc_ (~firstname.lastname@example.com) joined #rocklinux. [16:37] <pennemops> *grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr* re [16:38] ringo (firstname.lastname@example.com) joined #rocklinux. [16:39] <pennemops> hi ringo ! [16:41] <treo> th: what do I have to do next after I bootet up with the rescue cd? 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[17:00] <th> treo: you don't "mount" a swap [17:00] <treo> I mean add [17:00] <th> treo: create a partition (or another block device) for that [17:00] <th> and: [17:00] <th> mkswap BLOCKDEV [17:00] <th> swapon BLOCKDEV [17:00] <treo> ok :) [17:02] <treo> ok [17:02] <treo> next step [17:02] <treo> getting the packages [17:02] <th> so you want the buildbootstrap packages? [17:02] <treo> where do I get them from? [17:03] <treo> buildbootstrap? you mean that I build the packages myself? [17:03] <th> no [17:03] <th> i have released a set of packages [17:03] <th> ~200MB [17:03] <th> they contain everything you need to build everything else [17:03] <treo> ok [17:04] <th> http://treasury.rocklinux.de/rock-ftp/official/pre-release/20040902-build_bootstrap/pkgs/ [17:05] <th> you mounted your /mnt/target? [17:05] <treo> yes I did [17:05] <th> how big? [17:05] <netrunner> th: maybe you can have a look at the btsco thing? I don't know how to proceed as it seems that it wants 2.6 headers to compile against. [17:05] <treo> 4.7GB [17:06] <th> treo: ok so we can do it the easy way: [17:06] <th> cd /mnt/target [17:06] <th> mkdir src [17:06] <th> cd src [17:06] <th> wget -q -O - http://treasury.rocklinux.de/rock-ftp/official/pre-release/20040902-build_bootstrap/pkgs/list | sed 's#^#wget http://treasury.rocklinux.de/rock-ftp/official/pre-release/20040902-build_bootstrap/pkgs/#' [17:06] <th> what do you get? [17:06] <treo> server not found x) I have to configure my network card [17:06] <th> netrunner: that was the thing that worked with 126.96.36.199 and not with 2.6.7? [17:07] <fake> netrunner: i will take a look really soon [17:07] <th> treo: dhcp availebl? [17:07] <treo> yes [17:07] <th> treo: dhcp available? [17:07] <netrunner> fake: thx [17:07] <netrunner> th: no, it says it works from 2.6.7 on. [17:07] <th> treo: so just do "dhcpcd" [17:07] <treo> ok :) [17:07] <th> netrunner: fake will solve that :-) [17:07] <th> treo: "ip a" should show you an ip address than [17:07] <th> treo: does it? [17:07] <treo> yes [17:08] <th> treo: so proceed with that wget command [17:08] <fake> i'm generally interested in that. would save me the money for a headset for the car ;) [17:08] <treo> ok [17:09] <th> treo: it should show you 136 lines "wget URL" [17:09] <th> treo: does it? [17:12] <treo> I have some problems in finding the right keys on my german keyboard [17:12] <th> loadkeys de [17:13] <treo> cannon open includefile qwertz-layout [17:13] <th> hmm sorry for that send me a bug report i'll fix that [17:13] <th> treo: what key is missing? [17:13] <th> treo: you dont find [17:13] <treo> i did find it already :) [17:14] <th> ok [17:15] <treo> how much lines they are I don't now but they are quit much :) [17:15] <th> treo: soon "rocket" should do the job for you [17:15] <th> treo: ok [17:16] <treo> ok, cat says they are 136 [17:16] <th> treo: so do the same again (remember to be in /mnt/target/src) and appen |sh to it [17:16] <treo> ok download is running :) [17:17] <th> treo: after that do: "mine -i -v -R /mnt/target *.gem" [17:17] <th> install verbose with root at /mnt/target [17:17] <treo> ok :) i'll try not to forget it :) [17:17] <th> mine without any option should remind you [17:17] <th> mine -i [ -t ] [ -v ] [ -f ] [-x glob ] [ -R root ] package1.gem [ .. ] [17:20] <treo> :) [17:23] <fake> wee. 2.1-DEV with gcc34 patches using gcc32 just finished. [17:24] <th> fake: and what's the status? [17:26] <fake> 1321 builds total, 1304 completed fine, 17 with errors. [17:27] <fake> netrunner: *sendingevilviews* [17:27] <fake> avm/{ipw2100,slmodem,tpctl} [17:27] <fake> these are regressions beacuse i update my hosts' kernel [17:28] <fake> err [17:28] <fake> updated the kernel in the ref build, but they keep asking unmae [17:28] <fake> *uname [17:28] <fake> make: *** /lib/modules/2.6.7-rock/build: No such file or directory. Stop. [17:30] <fake> nxcomp, wvdial and ripperx are the only 'real' gcc34 patch related regressions [17:40] mnemoc_ (~firstname.lastname@example.com) left irc: Read error: 110 (Connection timed out) [17:49] <fake> und nochmal.... [18:00] <treo> mine running .... [18:00] <fake> netrunner: in the patch a file btsco.c is created [18:01] <fake> netrunner: add #include <linux/compiler.h> directly after #include <linux/version.h> [18:01] <fake> netrunner: that should fix it [18:01] <fake> netrunner: but the 22.214.171.124 update will be applied soon, i think [18:01] <fake> probably before your patch will be applied [18:04] <fake> ARGH!!! [18:04] <fake> the weather hates me. [18:04] <fake> now, exactly when Star Trek TNG is on, and i record it, it begins to rain like mad and my stream gets erroneous :( [18:07] <treo> th: done, whats next? [18:07] <treo> chroot /mnt/target ? [18:08] <fake> .... dubdidub. down to 13 errors - build order problems, and quante is replaced by kdewebdev. [18:10] mnemoc (~firstname.lastname@example.com) joined #rocklinux. [18:14] <th> re [18:14] <treo> wb th [18:15] <th> treo: chroot into it; run ldconfig [18:16] <th> set a password [18:16] <th> perhaps you want to run stone now [18:16] <th> (i seldom do that, so you are somewhat on your own) [18:17] <th> you should add swap space to the fstab [18:17] <fake> th is a hardliner ;) [18:17] <th> i have my network based scripts, and no fun with GUIs [18:18] <th> fake: btw: i'm uploading a first crystal. [18:18] <th> fake: and yea - i'd agree to be a hardliner ;> [18:24] <th> treo: in fact there are only a feew things you _need_ to do [18:24] <treo> ok [18:25] <fake> crsytal?? [18:25] <th> treo: ldconfig; set a password; add swap; set some system services (sshd, inetd, portmap) [18:25] <fake> crystal: i doubt that's an official one [18:25] <th> treo: setting the timezone [18:26] <th> fake: i'm not sure where to put it. [18:26] <th> fake: i though about official pre-release [18:26] <fake> th: your are NOT going to call it crystal ?! [18:26] <th> fake: not sure about it either [18:26] <fake> no you wont [18:26] <th> fake: had no discussion about it yet [18:27] <fake> clifford would kill you [18:27] <fake> but how about a 2.0.3 release? [18:27] <th> fake: it would NOT be put online as crystal without talking to cliff [18:28] <th> fake: you can see a (not yet complete) 2.0.3 TODO in wiki [18:28] <th> (personal-TODOs.txt) [18:28] <fake> i see it [18:28] <fake> (i updated it a few minutes ago) [18:29] <th> fake: not yet complete cause i will consider: 2004090801102903109, 2004090819143829574, 2004090906475504994, 2004090907092620967, 2004091021520102113, 2004091517210702378, 2004091307221302719 and samba update [18:30] <fake> th: i will not look up all those patch ids now [18:30] <fake> what patches are those? [18:30] <th> fake: thats kinda easy with Download -sm :-) [18:30] <th> wait [18:30] <th> fake: i'll put it readable in wiki [18:30] <fake> th: cool [18:32] <th> fake: com'd [18:32] <th> fake: the var/adm/desc/* causes ifenslave to be excluded from packages.db [18:32] <fake> i recommend ntfsprogs (nothing depends on it) [18:33] <fake> that's important, too, yes [18:33] <th> lame is just because that would remove one patch [18:33] <th> and having less patches is always on my mind [18:33] <fake> i wouldn't insist on lame/libpng - but if a ref build goes through it's nice to have [18:34] <fake> dhcp is not security related, iirc [18:34] <th> i'd really prefer a vanilla libpng instead of that 1.2.5-all.patch [18:34] <th> gsmp doesn't make it post splashscreen [18:34] <th> just dumps core [18:35] Action: treo is away: AFK [18:35] <th> i need to consider whether the splash screen is worth it ;) [18:35] <fake> th: yep [18:35] <fake> th: it never did with gcc > 2.x [18:35] <fake> remove it [18:51] tcr (~email@example.com) joined #rocklinux. 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Cub Scout Archives: Swimming Belt Loop and Pin
The Swimming belt loop and pin are part of the Cub Scout Academics and Sports program. This program gives Cub Scouts the opportunity to receive recognition for exploring different areas of interest.
Webelos who earn the Swimming Belt Loop while a Webelos also complete requirement 8 for the Aquanaut activity badge and part of requirement 3 for the Sportsman activity badge.
Swimming Belt Loop and Pin Requirements
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When Must Belt Loop and Pin Requirement Be Fulfilled A reader asks "In working on BL and pin requirements, do the scouts need to complete the requirements during a current "year" (their Wolf or Bear year for example)? " The requirements are not year specific, so we have always allowed our Cub Scouts to work on the requirements at any time since they joined Cub Scouting.
Who Can Earn Belt Loops A reader asks when a Cub Scout may work on a belt loop. Any Cub Scout can work on the belt loops and pins in the Academics and Sports program at any time.
BSA Bear Supplemental Den Meeting Plan L – Swimming BSA provides Bear den meeting plans for den leaders. Today we will look at a den meeting plan which focuses on aquatics. It covers requirements for Bear Elective 19 – Swimming and the Swimming Belt Loop.
Swimming Pin for Cub Scouts Cub Scouts who have earned their Swimming belt loop can go a step further and earn the Swimming pin from the Cub Scout Academics and Sports program. By working on the requirements for the pin, Cub Scouts will improve the swimming techniques.
BSA Wolf Supplemental Den Meeting Plan D - Swimming and Boating Safety Rules Wolf Den Meeting Plans: This meeting is a pool party where Wolf Cub Scouts learn about swimming and boating safety and earn their Swimming belt loop.
Safe Swim Defense Safe Swim Defense provides the steps which a BSA unit must take to safely participate in an activity which involves swimming.
Water Rescue Methods Since I am focusing on an aquatics theme this month, I thought I'd post about water rescue methods. These are methods used to rescue someone who is in trouble in the water. You will see these methods throughout the BSA programs from Cub Scouts to Boy Scouts to Venturing.
Piranha Ball Here is a another game to go with this month's aquatic theme. It can be used to fuflill requirement 2 for the Swimming belt loop from the Cub Scout Academics and Sports program: "Play a recreational game in the water with your den, pack, or family." This is a good game to play if you have some kids in your group who are not strong swimmers. They can play this game in chest-deep water and still have a lot of fun. For swimmers who need more of a challenge, the group can go to deeper water and tread water while they play.
Sharks and Minnows Here is a game to go with this month's aquatic theme. It can be used to fuflill requirement 2 for the Swimming belt loop from the Cub Scout Academics and Sports program: "Play a recreational game in the water with your den, pack, or family." This is a simple version of the game. There are many, many variations and some groups add "house rules" as well.
BSA Swim Test Pack your swimsuit on top. Those are always the instructions when packing for summer camp, because one of the first things we will have to do when we get there is the swim test. The BSA swim test is used to determine ability level so that participants can swim in an area which is appropriate for them.
Sweet 16 of BSA Safety | Skill Level Limits The most familiar application of skill level limits is the swim tests which are administered at summer camp. But there are other examples as well.
Ideas for May Pack Meeting - Health and Fitness The core value for Cub Scouts for the month of May is Health and Fitness. According to the program helps health and fitness is: Being personally committed to keeping our minds and bodies cleanand fit.Cub Scouts will learn that it is important and easy to eat a healthy diet and how a fitnessprogram can be part of their daily routine.
Swimming Belt Loop for Cub Scouts If your Cub Scouts go to the pool during the summer, they can earn their Swimming belt loop without a lot of effort.
Helps and Requirements for the Cub Scout Academics and Sports Program Belt Loops and Pins The Cub Scout Academics and Sports program gives Cub Scouts the opportunity to receive recognition for exploring different areas of interest. Cub Scouts earn belt loops which can be worn on the official Cub Scout belt when they investigate one of these areas. When they explore one of the topics further, they earn a pin. The pins are not worn on the uniform.
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