Welcome to the Lazy Café. Here we try to take it easy. Our customers serve themselves whenever possible. We try to make the environment pleasing enough—but not with a lot of effort, mind you. Decorations have to be easy to set up, and easy to take down. For instance, when a customer is done with […]
This cat who has been staying with us—she’s had three different names and I’m not sure which one will stick—had her babies on Saturday afternoon. The kids were away, the cat will play. She must have finally felt as though she could relax in some peace and quiet in the house.
We were visiting with guests […]
The last three nights I’ve been having these wacky dreams where undesirable things happen to me that feel slightly out of control. I keep thinking I should record these dreams and then re-thinking and telling myself these are the kinds of dreams I might want to let go. As in, let’s just choose not to […]
I am officially overwhelmed by life. The wave of things happening has finally washed over me and caused me to breathe it all in. There’s nothing left to do but ride.
Yesterday I launched One, a new online magazine. That was a big deal and I did it on very little sleep. Same day, my daughter […]
I went to pick up my daughter from a classmate’s house Saturday afternoon, a few blocks away. The girl has been coming to our Wednesday after-school classes and has gotten to be good buddies with my daughter. As it turned out, it was her birthday.
The girl’s teenage brother answered the door and invited me in. […]
I was visiting a country in central Africa, where there were wide expanses of gorgeous, low-lying plains surrounded by dry, hilly regions. I was there to do scientific research. The city in the hills where I arrived was terraced with cobblestone and yellow soil roads—large, wide steps, really, that led down the hills. Dwellings covered […]
Ten children visited my yard yesterday to play games, eat snacks, and create what they coined “Unity Village of Africa.” Each child and adult had created an original miniature paper house with a unique roof, some with optional organic decoration. We only had one figurine, seen here carrying a bundle on top of her head. […]
Last week I was visiting the Springfield Quad with a friend and her three children. I took a bunch of pictures of the gorgeous day and our kids playing outside. Not wanting to cause any rifts with my friend, I asked, “Do you mind if pictures of your kids show up on my blog?”
Her blasé […]
I hauled myself to the Sylvan Learning Center in East Longmeadow, Massachusetts over the weekend to take the GRE. I did an online tutorial to prepare for this test over a year ago, and since I completed it, we moved to a new house and life started to look a little different. I proceeded to […]
I faced and dealt with some serious challenges yesterday with my neighbors, the three kids who have become good buddies with my own three, and who have been regularly attending my Wednesday after-school children’s class. I’m still trying to process what happened to get me to a point where I was ready to slug José. […]