We watched a PBS documentary about the bombing of Germany in WWII and what I learned is that Eleanor looks like Dwight D. Eisenhower. I mean really, really looks like him. So we’re calling her Ike. We’re a little disappointed she’s chosen to resemble a dead, male, Republican known as a “do-nothing” president who didn’t [...]
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Art Shanty 2010
February 7th, 2010 · 3 Comments · EDG, Minnesota, Uncategorized
Man I love this state. Yesterday, Emily, Dan H., Eleanor, Leo and I headed west of the Cities to Medicine Lake, the site of Art Shanty 2010: “A four-weekend exhibition of performance, architecture, science, art, video, literature, survivalism and karaoke, ASP is part sculpture park, part artist residency and part social experiment, inspired by traditional [...]
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January
February 1st, 2010 · 6 Comments · EDG, Northfield
We’ve survived our first January in Minnesota. The driveway is an ice slick. The baby has a space heater. There were some days early in the month where it was snot-freezing, eye-ball icing, car engine-whining, thermostat-busting cold. The house isn’t too drafty but you can’t put Eleanor on the carpet to play until the place [...]
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You too have herpes
January 12th, 2010 · 7 Comments · EDG
Last week, when Emily picked Eleanor up from daycare, she (Eleanor) looked wrecked. She had bags under her eyes and a general look of sadness which no amount of silly dancing, singing, noise-making etc. could change. “Clearly,” we thought, “she has picked up the bug Emily had a few days earlier.” For two days she [...]
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Daycare, or the Great Abandoning of ’10
January 7th, 2010 · 6 Comments · EDG
Eleanor had her first day of daycare on Tuesday from 7:30 to 5. She did some life-sustaining combination of eating and sleeping and came home happy and surprisingly well-rested. I spent the day studying, lunching with Dan, cleaning and trying not to wake her up – I kept assuming she wasn’t with me since she [...]
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Home
December 30th, 2009 · 4 Comments · EDG, Northfield
Alright people, I’m about to get all circle-of-life on your asses. Check it: A few weeks ago, I found myself feeling particularly relaxed and perhaps even a touch giddy. I surveyed the obvious reasons — Christmas was on its way; I was a couple weeks into my five week break between terms; the new Eleanor [...]
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Christmastime
December 24th, 2009 · 1 Comment · EDG, Northfield, Uncategorized
I have been preparing for Christmas and reveling in my last 2 weeks of housewifery by being absurdly crafty (in the Martha Stewart sense, not the tricky, underhanded sense (as much as that surprises me)). I made Christmas stockings for Belly, Ellie and my mother. I knitted Ellie a hat using 2 different skeins of [...]
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It’s Cold Here
December 18th, 2009 · 3 Comments · EDG, Northfield
When we told people we were moving to Minnesota, their first impulse was to quote from Fargo. Their second impulse was to make some pronouncement about how cold it is in the winter. If they were wrong about Fargo (that’s North Dakota, not Minnesota), they were right about the weather. It’s cold here. Already, we’ve [...]
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South Carolina
December 14th, 2009 · 5 Comments · EDG, Trips
We are back from the much warmer, if not actually warm, weather of South Carolina. We had a wonderful time. Bruce and Anne’s house is very relaxing and we were able to indulge in such activities as watching four straight episodes of the Golden Girls manly sports on Bruce’s new high-def TV and walking on [...]
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Sons of Norway
December 5th, 2009 · 4 Comments · EDG, Northfield
A couple weeks ago, Emily excitedly told me that St. John’s Church, on the other side of town, was having a community Norwegian breakfast and we had to go. Um, ok. I like breakfast. I’m not opposed to churches. Well maybe I am. But I like breakfast more than I dislike churches, so I agreed. [...]
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