Sara Kerr

Musings

Category: Random Thoughts

  • Grief in art and French

    Voice therapy homework led me to recording a video in French which led to this blog post about art and grief. An English translation follows the photos.

  • Less than perfect

    But I forgot this particular piece of fruit on the buffet. And now it’s very much less than perfect. I’ll still eat it because I hate food waste.

  • My nonna used to terrify me with a story of falling through thin ice on a Massachusetts’s pond. Despite growing up on figure skates, I won’t skate across a lake unless it’s been below zero for 3 weeks or more. I’m definitely risk adverse when it comes to ice. Pea Soup and Deep Cracks Saturday’s fog…

  • And two more I just found with insert-your-favorite-adjective photos: Tommy & Paul – Midway Stadium pic.twitter.com/fugsmZYWOF — Darin K (@Darin_K_) September 14, 2014 This. pic.twitter.com/zCG0uj1mSC — Martin Devaney (@martin_devaney) September 14, 2014   Dear everyone I’ve ever known. See you tonight at the Replacements! — Steve Nelson (@stevenelsonmn) September 13, 2014   A Westerberg @StPaulSaints…

  • I have a Collie. In his mind, all the kids in my backyard must stay together. When one wanders off he barks to herd them back together. He’s a herding dog by nature. While my kids are used to Laddie, the neighbor kids don’t always appreciate being treated like wandering sheep. Every year the kids beg to take…

  • When the hair in your nose instantly congeals and bubbles freeze on bushes; it’s cold. “What are you doing blowing bubbles, if it’s that cold?” I hear you asking. When it is that cold, we cancel school and invent science experiments to pass the time—bubbles do freeze quickly; boiling water does not. Old timers and…

  • I hate chicken blogs.  Not cooking chicken, but raising chickens-for-eggs blogs. Google that and you’ll find 745,00 blog posts. And yes, mine are amongst them. Yes. I have TWO chicken blogs. One that no one reads and one that people love. The Daily Chicken tells the same story of baby chicks, stinky coops, and gorgeous…

  • Originally posted on Barataria – The work of Erik Hare: Leadership.  There has been a lot of talk about it lately, or more to the point the lack of it.  In common talk it is defined as “Doing or standing for the things I like” far more often than is useful.  But most people will…