March 2010
10 posts
The world is beautiful
My son looked out the window and said, “Somehow, some things are beautiful.” I couldn’t agree more.
10 Green Things for St. Patrick
To celebrate St. Patrick’s Day, we thought it would be fun to find ten green things to take a picture of. How did we do?
#1 at Whole Foods
#2 at the Starbucks Drive Thru
#3 at the LEGO store
#4 a series of Warhol prints
#5 a cactus
#6 a bright green shopping bag
#7 the Lacoste alligator
#8 at the Kate Spade store
#9 lots of kids wearing green
#10 a rabbit on...
It's a whole new world
My son has learned how to read. My baby. Once you learn how to read, you can’t stop, as my daughter says. Everywhere you look, you see words that make sense, words to read. This is the world that has opened for him.
When I walked in to my room to tell them breakfast was ready, this was what I saw. My son reading Green Eggs and Ham to his big sister. My heart swelled to three times...
This.
From the New Yorker about last night’s Oscars. I love this:
The one thing that none of us could have predicted was that our hearts, and our film-going habits of yore, should be stirred by a montage of old John Hughes movies. All of a sudden, folded and pasted together, as if in a yearbook or a photograph album, the clippings didn’t look dated, or tacky, or constrained by their setting....
Disco Queen
From last night’s 70s party…
Big Ideas
My goal? To do 12 things in 2010 that I’ve always wanted to do: the titular 12 big ideas. My progress thus far:
January - Launch my own website. See QuentinFinch.
February - Visit Big Bend. Done! Proof is here. (Attending my first internet conference was a freebie!)
March - Learn how to bake my two favorite cakes: Texas sheet cake and some sort of lemon bundt thing.
April - Take a...
