Graceful Parenting in Austin

I’ve talked before about my morning yoga tape of music, prayers and yoga poses that I made on my Mac with Garage Band and how one set of prayers is about loving kindness towards yourself, your family, neighbors, people you don’t know, people you don’t like, and all that. Some mornings I listen to these [...]

I’m pretty sure Moms are Super Heros and Marvel comics will discover this soon and make a series of summer blockbuster movies along with action figures and McDonald’s Happy Meal deals. I was thinking of this today, because I heard one of my favorite Super Mom stories ever…

I am really getting sick and tired of passion. It takes a lot of energy. It is draining. It gets my insides in a wad and sometimes it feels a lot like anger, even though I like to call it passion. I’m thinking this because I was in the airport heading back from Colorado and [...]

But, then we would end up part way along the trail when Blue Eyes would finish grocery shopping and he would have to wait for an hour (or two) hanging out in town with the milk getting warm in the car. … I read Into the Wild (there was a movie version recently) where a guy would just get in a canoe in some river without any idea where he was going or what he would eat or if there was a waterfall around the next bend and if he can do that, why can’t we go on a 2 mile hike?

I work in the software industry and I enjoy it and appreciate it, but I’ve been telling people for years that if the software thing doesn’t work out, I’m going to work in a dress shop instead.
I have a particular dress shop in mind, I was there about ten years ago, when visiting my brother’s [...]

This is a creek running through the Boulder Mountain Lodge camp ground where Blue Eyes, Baby Girl, Noel, my 14-year-old nephew, Charles and I are staying outside of Boulder, Colorado, Here are a few notes from our vacation so far…

I’m driving home from the coffee shop last night after having posted My Hairdresser in a Nightgown and it doesn’t feel right. I thought about calling a friend and asking her if she thought it was right, but I knew if I had to ask, then it wasn’t. (Which is exactly what this friend would [...]

It’s not often I find my hairdresser in a nightgown…

Erin Kotecki Vest might be all famous and powerful because she interviewed Barack Obama for BlogHer and I guess that is a big deal, but here in Texas, sports are a big deal too, and in Austin, University of Texas baseball is legendary, so here is my interview with the winningest [...]