More Than Four Sides

Category: Miscellaneous

  • I love my boots!

    Some time back, my blogging inspiration posted a photo of her boots.  I can’t link to that blog-post, or the photo, because, for some reason, I’m not able to see her blog.  Oh well. But, I have a pair of boots, now, that I love. Here they are: so, why are these my favorite winter…

  • Hermit crabs…why?

    Last August, on our way home from our family holiday at the Heritage and Culture Camp near Harrisonburg, VA, we stopped at a pet store and bought a pair of hermit crabs. It was J who lobbied for them, because he had seen the hermit crab brought in to his after school program on pet-sharing day,…

  • Little things

    Rosh Hashanah begins tomorrow evening, and kicks off about a month of holidays and lots of cooking. No time for writing looks posts, but here’s a short reflection. We have a charging station in our garage for our electric cars. Yesterday, I found it like this: Notice the looped cord? This image makes me happier.…

  • FaceBook, across the political spectrum

    My daughter recently asked me: why do you keep engaging these people on facebook?! I understand the desire for conversation across political sides, but they don’t seem capable of rationality, or reading comprehension (if they’d at least post counter-arguments that were coherent, that’d be something) If you are a “friend” of mine on FaceBook, you’ll…

  • Ski day

    It looks like the snow is finally gone (i hope), so before the memory fades, let me document my day off skiing with the boys. It was a Sunday, and Dad was out of town for the weekend for a business trip. When we first met, he was an avid skier, but we haven’t gone…

  • Happy Birthday to Me!

    Google greeted me today with this: Thanks, Google!

  • The smell of new linoleum

    I walk into the hospital complex where I work through a new entrance, which opened just a few months ago.  It’s a lovely entrance, with a security desk.  It’s of a grand entrance – a foyer – with a lot of photos of benefactors who funded this new building creating an impressive mural lining a…

  • ‘Competitive Mindfulness’

    I’m smiling, as I read this article posted on FaceBook by a friend: Against ‘Competitive Mindfulness’ | Child Mind Institute. I reminds me of my first yoga teacher, who introduced me to Iyengar yoga when I was in college at University of California Santa Cruz (yes, the Banana Slug school, but we didn’t have the…

  • Root canal – Part 2

    I was both dreading and looking forward to today’s visit to my lovely dentist, Dr. G. The adventure started about two weeks ago, with a weekend of pain, followed by relief/torture in his office, as he began the root canal procedure, and relieved the pressure of an infected root.  If you missed it, I described…

  • Root canal, really?

    I hate going to the dentist. HATE it! I don’t typically go every six months, like I’m supposed to. I’ve been blessed with strong teeth (thanks mom and dad!) and I do brush regularly (not so great with the flossing) and i’ve been lucky for several decades. Usually the hygienist shakes her head at my…