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(Bay) Bridge to the 21st century

Posted in Mostly about writing, tagged , , , on 29 February 2012 | 2 Comments »

Instead of living more of a “drawing room life” (as I’ve been calling time spent reading and talking and playing music — maybe cards, too) I’ve taken a turn towards the technological. This past weekend I attended the Bay to Ocean Writer’s Conference, a conference I’ve never been to before. It felt great to cross [...]

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Drawing room evenings

Posted in Mostly about parenting, Mostly about reading, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on 25 February 2012 | 10 Comments »

I wish we had a piano. If we had a piano I feel like I could skip watching TV and have Jane-Austen, George-Eliot, Downton-Abbey kinds of evenings.  My husband and I would sit around, listen to one of us play music, read books, play cards, gossip about our neighbors and relations, and take periodic turns [...]

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Adieu Downton Abbey …

Posted in Mostly about reading, tagged , , , , , , , on 20 February 2012 | 1 Comment »

Last night was the last episode of the current season of Downton Abbey.  There’s a season three, but it’s months and months away.  What to do to tide you over? In my last Downton Abbey post I wrote about being a mother to baby twins, and how it felt like living in another, slower century [...]

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I [heart] Downton Abbey

Posted in Mostly about (pop) culture, tagged , , , , on 12 February 2012 | 4 Comments »

So tonight is the second-to-last episode of this season of Downton Abbey.  Alas. For the first few months of the twins’ first year I felt like I was living in another century.  Not much happened (other than eating and sleeping and diaper-changing).  I didn’t get out much.  I didn’t read much.  I didn’t see many [...]

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