Thursday, January 4, 2007
Originally published in LLL US Western Division’s Connections #94, March/April 2001 It was the first month in our sons’ new school district, and I received an invitation to go to a “Newcomers’ Meeting†at the school administration office with other move-in parents and the superintendent. I was expecting folding chairs, bad coffee, and long speeches.
Thursday, January 4, 2007
Co-written with Judy Minami. Originally published in LLL US Western Division’s Connections #70, March-April 1997 For Area Administrators, major La Leche League events such as Area Conferences, Area Council Meetings, and other LLL gatherings usually entail more than simply attending sessions and gleaning information. You may be involved in planning the sessions or a specific […]
Wednesday, January 3, 2007
Originally published in LLL US Western Division’s Connections #70, March/April 1997 On our recent family trip to England, I was enthusiastic about visiting the town of St. Ives. I wanted to walk down the path to the little village just like the man in the Mother Goose nursery rhyme. I had also read that St. […]
Wednesday, January 3, 2007
Originally published in LLL US Western Division’s Connections #86, November/December 1999 When my family moved into our home on the top of a ridge in north Pittsburgh, we inherited a property full of work. Tree stumps at our feet, tree limbs in our faces, rotting railroad ties, old brush piles, and overgrown wild rose thickets […]
Wednesday, January 3, 2007
Originally published in LLL US Western Division’s Connections #77, May/June 1998 We are not the only family to have lived in this north Pittsburgh house. The Nesbit family bough the lot from John and Catherin Cummings over 30 years ago, one of seven lots carved out of the old Calvert Estate. In 1968 the Nesbits […]
Wednesday, January 3, 2007
Originally published in LLL US Western Division’s Connections #73, September/October 1997 “All through the year we are getting ready; getting ready for fishing, for berry picking, for potlatches, getting ready for winter.†Agnes Bostrom, quoted in Always Getting Ready—Upterrlainarluta, by James H. Barker. Central Yu’pik Eskimo elders of Southwest Alaska stress the importance of upterrlainarluta, […]
Wednesday, January 3, 2007
Originally published in LLL of Western Pennsylvania’s PennsyLLL Points West, Summer 2000 You’re a lone Leader, it’s meeting day, and your child is suddenly ill and needs a trip to the doctor. Or your co-Leader has the flu and you are coming down with something and can’t imagine yourself in a roomful of mothers and […]
Wednesday, January 3, 2007
Bedouin mother . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 800 Acrylic on canvas, 2004. 26 ½†wide x 32 ½†high. Framed in ¾†wide black wood.
Wednesday, January 3, 2007
Originally published in LLL US Western Division’s Connections, January/February 1997 From my dining room window, I look out on the creek that drains into Morris Lake. I love the bleak view out that window of the naked birch trees and thin sheets of ice on the lake. This time of year is when I can […]
Wednesday, January 3, 2007
Originally published in LLLI’s LEAVEN, November-December 1991 All of you have seen photographs and snapshot montages in LEAVEN of the speakers, Board of Directors, celebrities, and cute babies from past LLLI Conferences. But the trouble with photographs is that they stop the action. At the Miami Beach LLLI Conference, it was a joy to see […]
