A guide to flowers:

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What we’re reading at Wacky House:

Kids:
1) The “Fudge” books by Judy Blume (too funny) and the Babysitters’ Club series.
2) Anything with dinos.
3) Anything with helicopters, planes, monorails and other “Things that Go.”

Grown-ups:
1) Ethan Canin — “Carry Me Across the Water” — This made me cry it was so good. All about a grandpa’s memories of World War II and how it changed his life.
2) “Babyville” by Jane Green — Great chick lit. And I mean that as a compliment.
3) Anything by Philip Roth, especially his new one, “The Plot Against America.”
4) Mona Simpson, Mona Simpson
5) Alice Munro
6) The New Yorker and The Nation

ttfn, and have a great weekend!!!

WM

“The willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life is the source from which self-respect springs.”
— Joan Didion

Complaints about Wacky Mommy (and Wacky Boy), by Wacky Girl:

1) Doesn’t let me sleep.

2) They (WM & WB) always tell me to watch Boohbahs and Teletubbies.

3) Wakes me up too early.

That’s it.

Anyone need to vent? You’re amongst friends… all anonymous…

“I and the public know. / What all schoolchildren learn. / Those to whom evil is done. / Do evil in return.”

–W.H. Auden, poet (1907-1973)

Recipe of the day, a la Hockey God:

heat oil in pan
add 1 T black mustard seed, cook until they start snapping
add 1/2 T turmeric, salt and pepper, onions and garlic, sautee
dice potatoes and rinse, add to sautee
dice greens, add to sautee with water to prevent sticking and to make a little
sauce
cook until greens and spuds are tender (20-30 min), adding water as necessary
add lemon/lime juice, coriander (about 1 T), cook for another 5 minutes
garnish with fresh chopped cilantro and serve over rice

serve with love.

“The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum.”
— Frances Willard (1839-1898)

Check out this site:

http://www.dearreader.com/

I’ve been getting the non-fiction and fiction reads for a few months now — great way to preview a book.

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“I have bursts of being a lady, but it doesn’t last long.”
— Shelly Winters

from Wacky Girl:

I’m excited that school is going to be out in four weeks! What I have learned so far in kindergarten:

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no more “old nonsense,” got it?

WM

“Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could; Some blunders and absurdities crept in; Forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”

–Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer and philosopher (1803-1882)

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“Tell all the truth/
but tell it slant.”

— Emily Dickinson

“Hope is the thing with feathers/
that perches in my soul.”

— Emily Dickinson

Yes, that was the advice my 3-year-old gave me today: “If a meat eater comes after you, you’re on your own, Mommy.”

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