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About Me

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My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Real people. Skin Horse in the Velveteen Rabbit said it best: "It takes a long time. That's why it doesn't often happen to people who break easily or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand."

Books:

I swallow them in one gulp.

Heroes:

Pippi Longstockings

My Blog

vocal boy bits and great ideas (commented)

A conversation with my son: Sol sitting his carseat, his hand up his shorts, announces: Mommy! Mommy! Mommy! Yes Sol? Mommy! Yessss? My peepee is talking to me! It is! It is talking to me! It is? YES...
Posted by Alegra's Red Umbrella on Sat, 17 May 2008 09:17:00 PST

cherimoya and mango

It is hard to admit that once, a long time ago (but not so long really) my deepest fear was to have a child, especially a daughter. There are reasons obviously. Reasons that seemed to be tangled ...
Posted by Alegra's Red Umbrella on Thu, 15 May 2008 04:47:00 PST

up to the sky

I have fifteen minutes to blog. First, I want to publicly thank (once again) Teach and WDV for taking such good care of me, allowing me to be apart of their lives, driving me around, feeding me, brain...
Posted by Alegra's Red Umbrella on Thu, 08 May 2008 06:30:00 PST

Aliens, Floods, and Animals Oh My!

Aliens have made their way into Dan's computer. I am convinced of this. They are speaking to me in some sort of slot machine jangle of a morse code. I can't get them to stop. It is possible this thou...
Posted by Alegra's Red Umbrella on Mon, 05 May 2008 07:39:00 PST

Dear Grandma

I am no good at talking out loud, or talking in my head but I want you to hear me. I know you are ready to die, but I am not ready for you to die, not yet. For years I have wanted to sit down and writ...
Posted by Alegra's Red Umbrella on Fri, 02 May 2008 06:15:00 PST

Issues with Zero (and emergency update)

I am, as I type, being frantically urged out of the house. My grandmother is dying, will most likely be gone by tonight or tomorrow. My dad is dropping me off at his friend's house tonight and then he...
Posted by Alegra's Red Umbrella on Wed, 30 Apr 2008 09:20:00 PST

Landed!!! (commented)

I don't know how I ever thought that flight was difficult, just like most things pre-children that I used to think were 'work', I now discover are like mini-vacations. I cruised. Watched two gre...
Posted by Alegra's Red Umbrella on Tue, 29 Apr 2008 08:51:00 PST

Prozac substitute and Serendipity (updated by the power of 3)

Here is the problem, that subject has so much potential and right now it is operating like the Las Vegas strip lights after the apocalypse. Tons of flash but ain't nobody around to put on a good show....
Posted by Alegra's Red Umbrella on Sun, 27 Apr 2008 10:53:00 PST

an island, an accent, a love

Today on the bus I thought about the island, I thought about how I would describe it: "Well, it is two islands. If you took California from San Diego to Santa Cruz - that would be the North Island. Fr...
Posted by Alegra's Red Umbrella on Tue, 22 Apr 2008 08:36:00 PST

Paeroa Hell and a dream of Heaven (commented)

I must have been vibing on the impending deadline last week when I did my Grand Blog Declaration! Because I wrote the editors to find out what exactly I should be focusing on (just so I would know whi...
Posted by Alegra's Red Umbrella on Mon, 17 Mar 2008 09:02:00 PST