October 2010
6 posts
1 tag
week 32: a business trip to New Orleans
Last week I went to New Orleans on a 3 days business trip. Just when I was about to depart Michael Stipe (the lead singer of R.E.M) posted his personal guide to New Orleans on Gwyneth Paltrow’s blog. I checked out a few of his digs, but overall it did not correspond to me at all. So here is my “guide for a business trip to New Orleans”.
Primo: two night business trips are like...
1 tag
Interlude: a biographical list of favorite novels
Novels are delicious. I have relishing them since I was a little girl. Here is a brief biographical essay in novels.
A wrinkle in time (I can’t recall the story, only that I loved it and read it when I was very young)
Jane Eyre (read in High school)
Le Premier Siecle apres Beatrice (read in High School)
Spring Snow (read in High school – images of cherry blossoms stuck with me for years until I...
1 tag
Week 31: an unusual mother figure
When I was pregnant with my first child I went through a brief attempt to watch all movies that had won the Best Picture Oscar. I made it through a few, and Antonia’s Line was among them. In this Dutch movie there is an amazing mothering scene, where a young girl realizes soon after giving birth that she would rather spend her time solving mathematical puzzles than raising her baby. So her mother...
1 tag
week 30: food tips for you and your family
I have a dear friend who started a nutrition consulting business several years ago to help busy bodies find a healthy diet. I signed up for her class when my first child was nine months old: I wanted to rebuild my body and energy, recover from childbearing, breastfeeding, sleep deprivation and pretty radical changes in my lifestyle. She customized a “rebuilding” diet for me and I have...
1 tag
