My mother-in-law has been taking dance classes called “expression primitive” for years now, which is a sort of natural freedom animal-y movement, accompanied by a tambourine and the occasional grunt. Her passion for this class has always been met with fond indulgence and hidden smirks by her five sons. However, when she offered to take six of the grandchildren for… Read More
Dogs are gross aren’t they? I mean they transform my garden. They eat pigs ears and cows ears and beef intestine. Hunter ripped open the bag of beef intestine (panse de boeuf) and scattered the fine stinky crumbs all over my living room rug, just moments before all my students arrived. I had to whip out the vacuum and open… Read More
You know how it is when you give birth to an innocent dewdrop of a baby, and everyone else’s kids suddenly become gargantuan monstrosities that revile and disgust no less than the giants in Gulliver’s Travels? Well, my sister came to stay with us with her petit chou (little cabbage) of a newborn and managed to still love my children…. Read More
You’ve read the title and you’re rolling your eyes right now, saying, “Oh geez, Lady Jennie, here’s some fresh content on your blog.” But I promise you some perspective by the end of the post. So I’ve been a little blog-lonely lately. I know I said something about not really wanting comments on my memoire, but I lied about that…. Read More
Okay, I’m officially shattered. I don’t know, maybe it’s this weather. Cold, rainy/slushy, grey … Maybe it’s the dog. Do you know, each time we take a walk he goes straight for the dirty wet paper towel-kleenex on the ground? It’s just dripping with disgusting “dirty ground” juice. And then I have to scrape it out of his mouth with… Read More
Do you know what’s so great about having a birthday party in a garishly-colored climbing structure? The kids expend their energy elsewhere someone else directs their running around their father gets to realize his life-long dream of building a life-sized lego house And – I don’t have to bake anything. Do you know what’s so great about having friends who… Read More
