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Monday, May 24th, 2010
the Lysander
it ought to be perfect. there are steel rails installed, by the toilet and the shower. the LaZBoy throne has been replaced by a marvel which – at the touch of a button – deposits him from its egg-carton-cushy-foam seat onto his feet, and gently. there is a hospital bed in the master bedroom. nurses […]
18 Comments » - Posted in issue stuff,stuff stuff by bon
Sunday, May 16th, 2010
pieta
as my Mother’s Day present to my long-suffering mother, i went with her to church last weekend. church is the centre of my mother’s orbit in this life. her social whirl, her weekly schedule, her sense of what matters are all directly and primarily shaped by the faith community in which she grew up. the […]
29 Comments » - Posted in pondering stuff,relationship stuff by bon
Thursday, May 13th, 2010
the future, second verse
sometimes, if i hold my head right, i like to pretend i can see through time. i’ve been taking an open, online course in Education Futures these past few weeks. Dave’s one of the instructors, along with the luminous George Siemens. it’s a heady ride. there are 700+ participants, though the majority mostly lurk – […]
29 Comments » - Posted in pondering stuff,social media meta stuff by bon
Sunday, May 2nd, 2010
i have seen the future, baby
when i started working at an intersection of the fields of education and technology about twelve years back, my then-boss taught me the phrase early adopter. she was a proud, flag-waving version of the breed, a proselytizer of The New. she had a PalmPilot, with that little stylus i could never figure out how people […]
50 Comments » - Posted in pondering stuff,social media meta stuff by bon
Thursday, April 29th, 2010
if i had a fairy godmother
five years ago tonight i’d been in the same hospital room without leaving for more than two weeks. friends brought Lebanese food for supper, we laughed and ate. one commented lovingly on my little belly, which was finally blossoming past the pudge stage to a belatedly discernable bump. i talked to Dave on the phone: he […]
42 Comments » - Posted in coping stuff,mama-baby stuff by bon
Wednesday, April 21st, 2010
quattro
four years ago, right about now, we left for the hospital. a little late, as it turned out. i’d been stretched out on the futon upstairs, practicing my breathing, hope a thing with feathers in my throat. i’d sat at the island in the kitchen, perched on a stool, writing in my journal. i’d broadcast […]
31 Comments » - Posted in mama-baby stuff,milestone stuff by bon
Sunday, April 11th, 2010
relativity
four years ago today, at the rolltop desk in the upstairs den, i opened my old laptop – long since gone to Jesus, as has its replacement – and wrote my very first blog post. welcome to the crib, i warbled tentatively, voice new-born and flippantly uncertain. i’d grabbed the first name for the blog […]
36 Comments » - Posted in milestone stuff by bon
Tuesday, April 6th, 2010
reach
i was dragging two kids and some bags in the door. an envelope stuck out, lemon yellow, not the business kind. a belated Easter card, i thought, or an early birthday card for Oscar. i pulled it from the box, went to shuffle it under the electricity bill. then i saw the writing. and the […]
32 Comments » - Posted in relationship stuff by bon
Sunday, March 28th, 2010
the long dark bedtime of the soul
i am heavily asleep, each time, somehow. this is not possible, and yet i would swear it true. after three wakeups in the same night, deep sleep only occurs right in those precious three seconds before the next bloodcurdling scream of ma-mAAAA!!!! i lift my head as if from a pool of sticky cobwebs. i […]
29 Comments » - Posted in coping stuff,mama-baby stuff by bon
Saturday, March 20th, 2010
little plastic castle, or the what the f*ck ever happened to Liz Phair?
…they say goldfish have no memory i guess their lives are much like mine and the little plastic castle is a surprise every time – Little Plastic Castle, Ani diFranco, 1998 it takes about ten years for hindsight to focus, for the dirty judgement we call clarity to settle on a bygone era. before that, […]
