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House of the Blue Lights: January 2013
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House of the Blue Lights. On life, and being the parent of adults. Tuesday, January 29, 2013. The function of adult offspring. They're the only adults in your life that you can yell at when they're stupid. Saturday, January 26, 2013. They're really gone, and that's okay. This month I finally put to rest the notion that my children live here. I did it by turning their rooms into guest rooms. In other words, I acknowledged that they don't live here by making it easier for them to visit. Mind you, I wasn't ...
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House of the Blue Lights: 17 + 40
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House of the Blue Lights. On life, and being the parent of adults. Sunday, October 13, 2013. I remember high school in two groups- the wild ones and the responsible ones. Freaks and jocks. There isn't much wildness left after 40 years, but there is satisfaction and wisdom and a kind of underlying joy at lives, if not absent disappointment or brimming with success, at least appreciated and understood. Which I suppose is what we mean by "wisdom.". October 14, 2013 at 4:46 AM. October 14, 2013 at 9:54 AM.
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House of the Blue Lights: March 2013
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House of the Blue Lights. On life, and being the parent of adults. Friday, March 29, 2013. Do not pass Go. I met Wei in college. We actually got together in 1976 when we had just turned 20, but he pursued me for a couple of years before that, and I have a flashbulb memory of him from 1973, when we had Theater 101 together. Except I remember Wei. And they were, at least that one was. And he kept following me. For almost 38 years. Until 6 weeks ago. Yesterday he moved out. And that is that. Thirty-eigh...
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House of the Blue Lights: Things I learned from Jack
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House of the Blue Lights. On life, and being the parent of adults. Sunday, August 10, 2014. Things I learned from Jack. How to walk on stilts (well, to be honest, he tried to get me on the stilts, but I never got up the courage). If you want it, build it. (Code? Being an artist is not about how many museums you are in, or how fashionable you are, or what the reviews say. Being an artist is about getting up every day and making art. Workshop food won't kill you. Jill went to Harvard. To pass the gift along.
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House of the Blue Lights: June 2012
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House of the Blue Lights. On life, and being the parent of adults. Saturday, June 23, 2012. My daughter, looking at the picture her father just took of her: "Oh my god, I look like a grown up.". Apparently 5 years of supporting herself (which she's done from barely a month out of high school) did not clue her into this. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Read my posts on Tuesdays! I seem to have an opinion on everything. Check out my other musings. On trying to make art. So the kids will cook their own food.
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House of the Blue Lights: The neat nest
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House of the Blue Lights. On life, and being the parent of adults. Tuesday, January 14, 2014. As in, I put things away. It wasn't always so. In grade school they used to call me Templeton, after the pack rat in. Ah, the wisdom of mothers. Mom was not too far off- now that I have no one I need to remind of my existence I find things go where they belong as soon as I'm done with them. It's effortless, really. Cleaning becomes actually cleaning, not just putting stuff away. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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House of the Blue Lights: Someone else's war
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House of the Blue Lights. On life, and being the parent of adults. Sunday, September 8, 2013. The war against Iraq was launched on the eve of my son Seng Lim's 17th birthday. He has grown to manhood while men his age trained and fought and died for an evil and illegal policy whose aim was the personal enrichment of a politically connected elite. He never had to think about it. Seng graduated high school, and went to college. He actually went overseas for six months. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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House of the Blue Lights: Do not pass Go
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House of the Blue Lights. On life, and being the parent of adults. Friday, March 29, 2013. Do not pass Go. I met Wei in college. We actually got together in 1976 when we had just turned 20, but he pursued me for a couple of years before that, and I have a flashbulb memory of him from 1973, when we had Theater 101 together. Except I remember Wei. And they were, at least that one was. And he kept following me. For almost 38 years. Until 6 weeks ago. Yesterday he moved out. And that is that. Thirty-eigh...
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House of the Blue Lights: July 2012
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House of the Blue Lights. On life, and being the parent of adults. Wednesday, July 4, 2012. I'm listening to the news report of the Sandusky "scandal," on years long, systematic child abuse and cover up. Last week it was the Barclay's "scandal" on interest rate manipulation. The month before we had the latest in a string of JPMorgan "scandals.". I remember once there was a President who slept with his intern. This was a "crime" as in "high crimes and misdemeanors.". Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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