I really think I’ve had seasonal affective disorder this year. The sun, though, is what is making me depressed. I usually don’t mind high temperatures, but this summer was the hottest since the Dust Bowl. Nearly 50 days of over 100 degree heat. I don’t care how controlled the indoor environment is, that kind of [...]
Posted in Austin, family
Okay, I’m not really sick of home. What I am sick of is triple digit heat. For weeks. WEEKS! So spending cool days and chilly nights in the northwest was a welcome relief. Last year’s rant still applies. I’ll always miss tall trees, mountains and seasons. Sometimes I really don’t think that Austin makes up [...]
Posted in Austin, family
Rob had a fundraiser gig with the Texas River School last Saturday. Every month, on the Saturday closest to the full moon, there is a potluck dinner at the Texas Rowing Center. A band plays music on a raft tied to the dock. At 7:30 the raft pushes off, everyone hops into canoes or kayaks [...]
Posted in Austin, family, friends, Graham, Violet
For my friends and family not living in Texas, here’s what’s going on:
We both voted today and tried to caucus. Our plan was that Rob would put Graham to bed while I ran out and then I’d come back and put Violet to bed while he ran out. We’d heard that the caucus [...]
Posted in Austin
It was kind of cruel how beautiful the weather was during our trip to Portland and Oceanside, Oregon. Cloudless, highs in the low 80’s. After a summer of Texas rain (aka: torrential downpours that leave the sweltering air smelling like fetid rotting vegetation and swarming with man-eating insects) the Northwest seemed like heaven. [...]
Posted in Austin, family
Here is the letter I just sent to the Mueller neighborhood redevelopment planners as well as two Austin newspapers. Feel my rage:
My family and I have been excitedly awaiting our lottery-based chance to join the new neighborhood at the old airport. The Mueller redevelopment project has purported itself to be “…an attractive option [...]
Posted in Austin, house
Christmas was very laid back. Granny came over in the morning to watch Violet open her thousands of presents. This basically took until 3 p.m. because we wouldn’t give her another gift until she tired of the first. New phrase learned: “Rip it!”
She did rake in the gifts. Rob and I didn’t give her squat [...]
Posted in Austin, family, Parenting, Violet
When we moved here, I was very excited to learn Spanish. After all, Korean is so completely different from English, and we learned to get by. Spanish would be a snap, right? Well, okay, so we can order our migas and cerveza, but that’s about it. Surely Violet will translate for [...]
Posted in Austin, dual language immersion, English
A local nursery a bit south of us held a festival on April Fools weekend. Violet and I met up with our friends Nancy and Evie. (Nancy is also an ESL teacher, Evie was born two days before Violet and Nancy’s husband used to work in the same building as Rob… insert Twilight [...]
Posted in Austin, Violet
