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Perfect Moment Monday: Done! (stage one)

Lavender Luz — Mon, 28 May 2012 02:00:43 +0000

Thanks to so many of you and my very supportive family, I have finished the first draft my my manuscript (with Crystal’s help)! I have three more months to spit and polish and to build the frontmatter and backmatter sections before I submit it to the publisher. Then the REAL spitting and polishing begins. Because [...]

Wordless Wednesday: Whimsical or weird?

Lavender Luz — Wed, 23 May 2012 13:00:55 +0000

Pregnancy in Lucite on a keychain. I know what *I* think. How ’bout you? (Want more? My friend Kristin has an entire series about things that make you go “WTH??”)

Half-breed

Lavender Luz — Mon, 21 May 2012 13:00:29 +0000

What do Cher, President Obama and adoptees have in common? This earworm was on the radio the other day and made me think of all three. Half breed. That’s all I ever heard. Half breed. How I learned to hate the word. Half breed. She’s no good, they warned. Both sides were against me since [...]

Whoooooo are we? Who who! Who who?

Lavender Luz — Sat, 19 May 2012 13:00:11 +0000

We often ponder the question “Who Am I?” But for the first time the larger question was posed to me: If the question were asked by someone from outer space — WHO ARE WE? Who are we humans, we citizens of planet Earth? The conversation was with my Canadian friend Helene Tremblay. Helene has spent [...]

I own that

Lavender Luz — Wed, 16 May 2012 13:00:38 +0000

Jane asked us at the start of yoga class to silently compliment ourselves on something. In the space of seconds I discounted everything that came to mind. On my body? That’s my genes. On my children? That’s someone else’s genes. On my writing? That’s due to my dad, my 7th grade teacher, Melissa, y’all who [...]

Outliers

Lavender Luz — Sat, 12 May 2012 13:00:15 +0000

An open letter to ministers, yoga teachers, and anyone addressing mothers and fathers in mid-May or mid-June. Dear Person at the front of the room, I know you worked really hard on that homily about Mother’s Day / Father’s Day. It’s a time of joy and appreciation and community for almost everyone in the room. [...]

Five ٥ 5 cinco 五 fünf ★ cinq V

Lavender Luz — Fri, 11 May 2012 12:00:45 +0000

High five, everyone –it’s my blogoversary! Year-by-year highlights of my blogging and personal lives: In 2007 I joined the blogging world via a Peggy Orenstein book and the Barren Bi+ches Book Club. My brother-in-law was near death from Guillain-Barre Syndrome and my children were 6 and 4. I had just taken up yoga .Back then [...]

Time Warp Tuesday: Mothering

Lavender Luz — Tue, 08 May 2012 13:00:18 +0000

I’m participating in Time Warp Tuesday, the monthly blog hop offered by Kathy at Bereaved and Blessed. This week’s theme is Mothering, and our assignment is to: Choose a blog entry from your archives that you wrote about mothering. It can be a post where you talked about your own experience as a mother, one [...]

All that’s left

Lavender Luz — Mon, 07 May 2012 13:00:37 +0000

About the time I started middle school (or, as we used to say, “junior high”) I had exasperated my piano teacher to the point where she decided I had to find a new teacher. I still don’t know how I flummoxed my mom so. I suppose it could have been my legendary stubbornness. (Example: My [...]

VIPs: Very Important Posts from April 2012

Lavender Luz — Wed, 02 May 2012 13:00:23 +0000

We sometimes talk about a person being “full of himself” as if it were a bad thing. But really, who else would a person be full of? Watching a child become full of himself is a beautiful thing to behold, as witnessed by Judy Miller in her post Full. A found videotape led to several [...]