Tangent: Music Theory At the park the other day, my son called to me from the swings. “Hey, Mom! What song is this? NAH-na-NAH-na-NAH-na-na-na-NAH!” “I think that’s ‘Für Elise,’” I … Continue reading TBR List Declutter, Issue 46
Tangent: TBR Envy The other day I clicked on the profile of a Goodreads reviewer whose reviews I see with some frequency and discovered that they have more than 3,000 … Continue reading TBR List Declutter, Issue 45
Tangent: No tangent today. This post is all business. And I can’t think of a tangent that interests me enough to write about it. See “Visual Interest” for a tangential … Continue reading TBR List Declutter, Issue 44
Tangent: Attachment Parenting My daughter is considering residential camps for this summer. She’s done day camps since she was five years old, but sleep-away camp is uncharted territory for us, … Continue reading TBR List Declutter, Issue 43
Tangent: Social Media Prune The title of this tangent is inspired by (stolen from) a recent podcast by Katy Bowman (episode #101: Social Media is (Still) Shaping Your Body), but I’ve … Continue reading TBR List Declutter, Issue 42
Tangent: The Best Defense My cat, Owen, turned eighteen this past February. He’s starting to look like a bit bony and a little scruffy, he sleeps even more than he … Continue reading TBR List Declutter, Issue 41
Tangent: Friends and Flatterers During lunch, my children and I have been listening to Stephen West’s “Philosophize This!” podcast. Recently we heard about Plutarch’s distinction between friends and flatterers. A … Continue reading TBR List Declutter, Issue 40
Tangent: Physical Education None of us had any clue what field handball was, and my children had never taken a P.E. class before, yet here we were on a sunny … Continue reading TBR List Declutter, Issue 39
Tangent: On Letter-Writing For the past year, I’ve been exchanging letters with a prison inmate through the letter-writing ministry of the Unitarian Universalist Association’s Church of the Larger Fellowship. Because … Continue reading TBR List Declutter, Issue 38
Tangent: There are no obvious invertebrates in today’s Visual Interest, so it’s safe to tell you about “Chicken Casserole.” I put “Chicken Casserole” in quotes because I always think of … Continue reading TBR List Declutter, Issue 37
Tangent: In León, Spain, last November, we’d just eaten a meal that included a selection of cured meats—jamón ibérico, chorizo, lechazo, morcilla, cecina. On the way back through the old … Continue reading TBR List Declutter, Issue 36
We started January with a cross-country road trip, and ended February with the sale of our house in Massachusetts and are only a few days away from closing on a … Continue reading Bookends: January and February 2018
