In defense of weirdness and against earnestness and chakras

for Ms. Moon:



If you're partial to Tom Waits and Keith Richards, you might enjoy this. If you're into earnestness and chakras, you probably won't.

Doodling, toodling around

Carnaby Street, London via The Improvised Life

What am I doing in between driving to baseball clinics, lacrosse and basketball games?

Visiting these links -- and I beg to differ on it being a "waste of time:"

• The passages in Keith Richards' autobiography that describe the mod clothes worn and the life in London in the mid-sixties are particularly fascinating to me. So I was delighted to read this post on The Improvised Life. When you go there, be sure to listen to the Kinks -- they provide the link.
• The incredible new Google Art Project.  
• Bookshelf envy at Apartment Therapy.
• beenthinking blog
• a review of what sounds like to me a bizarre and fascinating memoir called The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating about a strange disease and contemplating snails is found here

What are you doing?

Rainy Sunday

I've been sitting in bed nearly all morning, drinking coffee and ignoring my children by only uttering yeahs and neat when they ask me something or show me something. I'm reading Keith Richards' Life and Susan Casey's The Wave and if there are two subjects completely opposite to my life right now as I live it they might be rock and roll as practiced by the Stones and surfing big waves as practiced by Laird Hamilton and native Hawaiians. Life, though, makes me think of my first husband and all the records we listened to, first in our rented farmhouse on the outskirts of Chapel Hill and then the rented pentecostal church in east Nashville where we lived once we were married. How so much time and life can have gone by is weird --

This is what the rest of the family is up to --

Spanish homework

the creation of a Football Shrine -- I didn't ask for details

Valentine, wishing that someone would pay attention

iPad  book