LAURIE ROCKENBECK
My personal and random blog
Happy Accidents Ala Mode
Last year's quince harvest was astounding. I don't know how a laundry basket compares to a real bushel or peck, but we had a couple of laundry baskets last year. That's a whole lot of quince. This year's harvest has been quite the opposite. Given the huge quantity...
Another Blog You Should Check Out
I have this friend who is a really clever writer and blogs about the things that happen in her life. I read her blog today and decided that my blog would be about her blog. I have a link to it at the right, but I'm putting it below so it's easy for you all to look at....
I, Luddite
The next morning, after I'd given my daughter the drafting set to use for her geometry homework, my son came down and saw the interesting leather box on the table. Opening it, he looked at all the pretties and asked what they were for. I took out the compass with a...
Holding a Memory
When my daughter set up a search for her compass to do her geometry homework the other night, it was nowhere to be found. It took me a long thirty seconds to decide whether or not to go ahead and cop to the fact that I had a way better compass only a few feet away. I...
Home-made Cool Whip?
Every once in a while, a passing comment made by others sticks in my brain and sort of burrows around until I have to write about it. When we were in New York, we stayed at a pretty swank boutique hotel. It was directly across from Lincoln Center and only a long block...
A Fair Day
I have to admit I wasn't really thrilled with hauling my snuffly-nose-achy-head to the county fair yesterday. I'd rather be miserable at home than at the fair. But, it's a one-time-a-year sort of deal and, I know from experience, waiting until the last day is a bad...
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