Overheard just now: “Ember, do you want to go get Mama some potato chips?” [No reply.] “I can’t wait till she can walk!”
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My girleens
Aqua Gal
When Emmy was just a baby, I was (thanks to Jason & Eleni) the one who gave her baths, as you’ll recall from October-ish/November-ish posts. Yesterday, for the first time in many weeks (on account of my move to Davis) it was time for her and me to take a bath once again. She took one look at the tub and started screaming. I mean screaming. I lifted her in anyway. But seeing her genuine […]
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When I read Anna’s email this morning about the 8.9 earthquake and subsequent tsunami in Japan, I was stunned. It was the last day of classes for me at UC Davis. I had some language games planned. How can one worry about language-learning and games at a time like this, when people don’t know if friends and families are okay? A baby comes in handy. According to prior plan, Eleni & Emmy Amtraked up here […]
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All I have to say is that I may be leaving Davis in a month and teaching a single class at a community college an hour south of the East Bay starting in April. Much more interesting to my three readers would be the email Lulu sent me yesterday, complete with photographs. We talked about this fella in class today (Thursday). I wrote his name down on my arm to remember to show him to […]
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