Category: general

04
Aug
2006

TAKE A BOW WOW!

Meet our houseguest! This is Chimay (pronounced “shim-ay”) who was named after a Belgian beer. He’s the sweetest, calmest, prettiest cocker spaniel I have ever met, and he’s all ours until next Wednesday! Mikael and Lene dropped him off this evening after giving us a crash course in Having a Dog 101 (including the fine art of picking up dog poo in a little black bag without having to come in actual contact with it). He was a bit confused when his humans and his brother Eddie shut the door in his face and left him here, but he seems...

03
Aug
2006

POETRY THURSDAY

I love sleeping in. In fact, ‘love’ is really not a strong enough word for the pleasure I derive from simply not having to get out of bed on any given morning. You can judge my enthusiasm for my job by the fact that I prefer to get up early each weekday morning to go do it rather than turning over, slapping the off button on the alarm with a flailing hand and burrowing back into my pillow. I’m not a morning person by any stretch of the imagination, but I do believe in starting off each day on the...

02
Aug
2006

JUST A LITTLE LIST

lots done and lots to do, with some glowing praise sprinkled over it, at work being forced to go shoe shopping because my little black suede slippers finally came apart at the seams and realizing that all the shoe stores in town are having half-off sales! DOUBLE SCORE! Excellent sushi for dinner (despite the overly long wait) with a gaggle of girlfriends getting to read a very well-written paper about Pettson & Findus book translations by one of the Mosaic Minds staff members drooling over this lovely gallery of travel posters, which makes me want to plan another trip still...

31
Jul
2006

ITS LONG DAYS SPENT AND GONE BEFORE YOU KNOW IT

For one week things were slow, even with dinner out, dinner in, a night at the movies and a family birthday party. Today, suddenly, time coughed, the ignition key of autumn turned and the ticking days of the calendar are already filling up. Work hummed and buzzed and scooted me forward so suddenly it’s a wonder I didn’t get whiplash when I suddenly realized it was already after 5 and the light was mellowing beyond the window. I am ready for fall. I expect the mice and apple cider any day. I am ready for the flies to quit tickling...

30
Jul
2006

15 MINUTES

I was approached recently and asked for an interview for a recently launched expat website that posts the experiences of people who have moved and are living abroad. “If you are considering an international move yourself, let ExpatInterviews.com show you examples of real people who have done it successfully. Learn how they did it, how they managed to survive the difficulties of moving to another country, and how they are happily living their life’s dream. You too can make such dreams possible; this site will be one of the first steps in the right direction.” Read the interview *** I...

28
Jul
2006

ORANGE YOU GLAD IT’S NOT ANOTHER APPLE?

Don’t you wish you were having dinner at my place tonight? LE MENU CHEZ LIZARDEK Herb-encrusted Pan-fried Chicken Fillets Oven-baked New Potatoes with Olive Oil, Thyme and Black Olives Aromatic & Colorful Couscous Salad with Red/Orange Peppers and Ruccola and THIS for dessert: Fruit Pizza! Chilled fresh berries and fruit on top of a layer of cream-cheese frosting on top of a giant chocolate-and-butterscotch-chip cookie! Say it with me: MMMMMMMMMMMMM! The Biggest Birthday Wishes to the Best Lizardmom in the WHOLE WORLD!

27
Jul
2006

POETRY THURSDAY

My family is at the beach for the 3rd day in a row. Me, I’m not at the beach, because I’m the burn-and-peel type, plus have you been at the beach? If you don’t go into the water, it’s all just …hot and cancerous. What I love best about these heatmaze summer days is the evenings, when the sun cuts us some slack and lights up the front of the dusk-clouds with rose and gold. When the air kisses us with a cool promise of evening breezes and the screens on the windows sway in and out so gently. When...

26
Jul
2006

WILL THE REAL LIZARDEK PLEASE STAND UP?

Apropos of contemplations about my self-image and my mirror image and the evil twin that only appears in photographs, I wonder how many other people out there are addicted to avatar-makers? Am I the only one? I think they’re great fun, and an absorbing time-suck. Only I realize that all the little lizardek’s I have created, with the exception of only a few, adhere to a standard ideal of beauty that includes high cheekbones, heart-shaped faces, round and doll-like eyes, and skinnyness. They’re little mini-me’s without the freckles and barky hair and untidy eyebrows. It’s like being a virtual Barbie...

25
Jul
2006

BEAUTY CAPTURES YOUR ATTENTION, PERSONALITY CAPTURES YOUR HEART

I sat across from you at the table this evening and all I could think was, you are so beautiful. How can you not see it? How can you be so sure that you’re unattractive? Someone’s got a lot to answer for, that raised you believing a lie. Now I’m not speaking just to you, I’m talking to myself and to the spaces inbetween, where the fine-webbed cracks appear on the inside of the surfaces. Do we all only see our flaws? Are we raised on denial, comparison and self-blindness? What do you see in the looking glass? Who? The...

24
Jul
2006

WE DO NOT REMEMBER DAYS, WE REMEMBER MOMENTS

Every trip leaves tracks in the mind, memories that slowly fray around the edges. I was surprised that the people of Scotland were, on the whole, so short. I was amused that every time I heard a mother call or reprimand a child, his name was inevitably Alastair or Conor. I was more apprehensive about riding in vehicles on the “wrong” side of the road than I thought I would be; using my own neck muscles and mindpower to keep the buses from tipping off the edges of cliffs and from whamming into oncoming traffic that was on the wrong...

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