On Painting Ankles

Monthly Archives: September 2010

On Painting Ankles

September 13, 2010 – 3:12 pm

Sophie worked a long time on this painting. She kept telling me she couldn’t get the ankles just right … “Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.” —Oscar Wilde

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A Cool Morning

September 13, 2010 – 3:09 pm

(taken August 17) Finally, a cool enough morning to enjoy my coffee outside while Sophie slid and slid and slid, and Owen and James watched leaves flutter in the breeze (a pastime I vividly remember Sophie enjoying, too). “Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.” —Sam Keen

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Tucker

September 13, 2010 – 3:04 pm

“A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.” —Robert Benchley

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Emilie Visits!

September 13, 2010 – 2:25 pm

Grandma, Sophie, Emilie, Ben, Kelsey, Mom holding James, Aunt Ann holding Owen, Uncle Corey Emilie and Owen Emilie holding Owen; Uncle Corey holding James Ben reading to Sophie I love when the Mangan family comes to visit. They come in with a flurry of hugs and kisses and food (Grandma made a delicious blackberry cobbler […]

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My Manifesto on Men, Newborns and Sleep

September 8, 2010 – 9:15 pm

Owen and James will be four months old on the 19th and we’re still getting up in the middle of the night. But things have improved greatly from the first few months—a good night is a feeding around 1am or 2am, and another around 5am or 6am, with the boys going to bed sometime between […]

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Thank God for Mothers

September 7, 2010 – 10:22 pm

“Mother is the one we count on for the things that matter most of all.” —Katherine Butler Hathaway

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Go Reds!

September 7, 2010 – 10:15 pm

“Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball.” —Jacques Barzun

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Mango Wins

September 7, 2010 – 10:03 pm

The homemade turkey meatloaf was a no-go (go figure) so mango for dinner it was. “A king asked a sage to explain the Truth. In response the sage asked the king how he would convey the taste of a mango to someone who had never eaten anything sweet. No matter how hard the king tried, […]

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Kristin and Tom’s Wedding

September 4, 2010 – 3:57 pm

Early August we attended our good friends’ Kristin and Tom’s beautiful wedding ceremony at Ault Park. It was like something out of a movie—butterflies and finches fluttered about as two families joined, so honestly and openly proclaiming their love—and joy—for each other. A delicious meal at Cumin in Hyde Park followed—it was a most wonderful […]