http://annaschwind.com Anna Schwind's blog Thu, 07 Jan 2010 02:19:12 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I took the dog out again today! Have I mentioned that I'm the playground lady at school? Yeah, how weird is that? And it's Montessori, so there's all that connectedness to nature focus, which means we go out every day without fail. For two days I have driven over the ... http://annaschwind.com/2010/01/06/youll-freeze-to-the-bone-out-there/ Took the dog out again today. Thought about how nice it was that I wasn't going on a twenty minute walk with him. Believe that's probably not in the spirit of forming a habit. Just realized that I'll be gone on Friday and won't be able to ... http://annaschwind.com/2010/01/05/down-came-the-rain-and-washed-the-spider-out/ I took the dog out, even though it's very, very cold. There were five separate toilet accidents today at work. Granted, one was a repeat customer, but still. Also, it was not actually my job to clean up after the children who had these accidents, but that's only because ... http://annaschwind.com/2010/01/04/have-i-mentioned-that-its-cold-outside/ So. It's that time again. The resolutions time. I waffle a lot on doing this, some years yes, some years no, and I have the same rough success with resolutions everyone else has, which is not much...starting off strong and petering off, or just trying to do ... http://annaschwind.com/2010/01/03/2010-6-changes/ So now that it's official and all, I can tell you the thing I've been hedging about in the last few posts. As of today, I am co-editor of PodCastle, sharing duties with the excellent Dave Thompson. As we like to joke: he's the nice one. Rachel ... http://annaschwind.com/2010/01/01/she-was-the-queen-of-the-25th-hour/ I'm not conscious of feeling overwhelmed, but I am really busy, and I start daily work again on Monday for the first time in several years, and I have lots of obligations and things I need to get done, so I guess it's not all that surprising that last night ... http://annaschwind.com/2009/12/31/but-its-the-lies-in-your-eyes-that-make-me-want-to-cry/ Welcome to my writing accountability post. There won't be much here, because outside the hundreds of typed pages of notes I took at Montessori training and the hundred and fifty or so handwritten notes I did at observations in November, other types of writing mostly did not occur this ... http://annaschwind.com/2009/12/30/there-isnt-any-place-that-i-need-to-go-there-isnt-anything-that-i-need-to-know/ So 2009 was a turning point year for me, in a number of ways, and now I'm going to set down all the ways in which my life changed, both for posterity and to share. Throughout 2008 I started to feel pretty worthless insofar as the writing endeavor was concerned. ... http://annaschwind.com/2009/12/29/i-keep-my-feet-on-solid-ground-and-use-my-wings-when-storms-come-around/ So it's been a while, and I thought we could all use a tally plus a reminder of how the lyrics game works. As you may have noticed from the "What I'm Listening To" portion of the sidebar, I listen to a lot of music, and music plays an ... http://annaschwind.com/2009/12/28/the-lyrics-game/ Well, since I didn't keep up with my reading list in 2009 (because I didn't keep up with the blog, see), now I must attempt to reconstruct the entire list from memory and stacks of books sitting on the chest of drawers and the help of Library Elf. Here ... http://annaschwind.com/2009/12/26/2009-reading-list/