The Green Room

Talking about Joseph Campbell tonight, I realized that Ryan is interested in the structure of stories, while I am more interested in their meaning. This explains why we never enjoy the same movies.

Things Hanna likes to say while marching topless around the living room: -Okee! Dokee! -No, Dada! -Rarr! -Kitty! She will also stop sometimes and blow kisses. Toddlers are amazing.

Despite the fact that my knee is still throbbing, I managed to get the last of the rose bushes pruned back today. The yard debris bin is very tall and it makes a nice crutch. I’m trying to do at least one thing in the yard each weekend, and I’m glad I was able to [...]

I’ve spent most of the day on the couch with ice on my knee. The pain has been getting worse all day, but I hadn’t realized quite how badly I’d hurt myself this morning until I noticed the blood seeping through my leggings. I don’t think it’s broken or anything like that, since I was [...]

The baby gates are no longer the object of comfort they once were. First Hanna figured out how to open the ones upstairs, and now this morning I was trying to put away my backgammon set and the gate by the linen cupboard attacked me. Well, more like I was trying to put the backgammon [...]