Segullah's Blog, page 30
February 11, 2020
The Quitter
I let my daughter do that thing that I swore I WOULDN’T do. Hot tip to younger parents- promise nothing- you’re going to spend a lot of time eating so many of vows. I let her quit piano. After years of playing while visibly and vocally and powerfully sharing her displeasure with everyone in the...
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February 10, 2020
Clear vision, rose-colored glasses, and hate versus love
Fluorescent lights don’t impede my vision, but they impact my brain, so I gear up against them: Clear trifocals off, rose-tinted trifocals on. Dark UV sunglasses wrap around peripheral exposure. Sun visor, pulled low over glasses, covers the gap at my eyebrows. I’m vain enough to realize I look ridiculous putting these on to leave...
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February 8, 2020
Talking to Yourself
At 6PM on a Wednesday in the middle of winter, I sat in a corner booth waiting until a class with friends would start. Arriving too early to go to the meeting place, and too late to go home and then back again, I opted for a coffee shop. It was warm, had Wi-Fi, and...
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January 29, 2020
Segullah Podcast “WORDS FALL IN” with Ilima Todd
Stop the clocks! I decided it was time to interview a novelist on our podcast and I found a great interviewee in Ilima Todd. Ilima Todd never wanted to be a writer (she was a physicist), but one day decided she would like to try. Lots of practice later, her novel Remake was published. Later,...
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January 27, 2020
Ready or Not
I recently had to place a child. In an effort to avoid moving this child to our large shelter, I scrambled to find a family that could welcome this little one in a matter of days. Getting the list of approved families, I began reading home studies, consulting with the placement committee, and making calls....
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January 20, 2020
Resolution Evolution
I gave up making resolutions years ago. I abandoned the practice for several reasons. Naturally, I end up breaking my resolutions fairly quickly, which led to shame, discouragement, and a frenzied feeding of my vices. Like Paul, I am grossly disappointed in my ability to keep my resolutions. He describes his wrestle between virtue and...
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January 10, 2020
Great Expectations!
As I write this, my wonderful, talented, intelligent, industrious daughter-in-law has started contractions for her second son. She’s in DC, and I am in the snowy hinterlands of Utah. I’ll head out in a couple weeks to lay eyes and hands on the new little fellow and the rest of the family. I hope Heather...
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January 9, 2020
Great Expectations!
As I write this, my wonderful, talented, intelligent, industrious daughter-in-law has started contractions for her second son. She’s in DC, and I am in the snowy hinterlands of Utah. I’ll head out in a couple weeks to lay eyes and hands on the new little fellow and the rest of the family. I hope Heather...
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January 8, 2020
Savoury and Sharp
Life at the university has picked back up again. This week I’ve been flailing under an avalanche of sticky notes and emails and phone calls asking me to rearrange classes, times, locations, lunch menus, and acoustic panels. (I also had to deal with an unfortunate situation I’m calling, “Christmas Tree, Over and Over Again.” I...
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Savoury and Sharp
Life at the university has picked back up again. This week I’ve been flailing under an avalanche of sticky notes and emails and phone calls asking me to rearrange classes, times, locations, lunch menus, and acoustic panels. (I also had to deal with an unfortunate situation I’m calling, “Christmas Tree, Over and Over Again.” I...
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