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Leaping Lemurs! A New Red Diaper Dharma Column

April 6, 2008, 3:28 pm

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I've been hinting at this for weeks, and now I can write about it! My new Red Diaper Dharma column is now up at Literary Mama. It's called "My Upcoming Life as a Part-Time Wife," and it just goes to show you the road of life still has a few twists and bends to it...!

Here's an excerpt:

Bill and I have been going on about life, and it's been good. The same house for the last nine years, the same university jobs, slow increases in salary and in the quality of our cars, and slow decreases in our personal exterior beauty. Recently, I've been coming to grips with the idea that we're aging, that now is a season for internal growth, adventures are for the young . . . and that this is okay because we're happy, evolving, and growing deeper . . .

Then, six weeks ago, the President of Madagascar asked Bill to come and act as his Special Advisor.

To read more about the upcoming adventure, go right here: http://www.literarymama.com/columns/reddiaperdharma/archives/2008/04/my_...

Thanks!

 

Jessica Inclan

Jessica Barksdale Inclan says:

This certainly will be an adventure!

Great blog and what a great experience for Bill and you.  I look forward to hearing how it all goes, and I expect there will be the mix of good and bad and in-between.

My son Mitchell (when he was two) picked up a tortilla chip and said, "This one looks like Madagascar."  So I kept thinking about that the entire time I read your blog.

:)

J

Jessica Barksdale Inclan www.jessicabarksdaleinclan.com

Ericka Lutz

Ericka Lutz says:

I love Mitchell's chip

Like animal crackers or alphabet soup, wouldn't it be cool to have bags of chips shaped like all the countries? We'd all learn geography...

Belle Yang

Belle Yang says:

I haven't read your linked

I haven't read your linked piece yet, but I like the fact that you were leading peaceful lives and suddenly a great adventure arises in the middle of it all. Madagascar, who'da thunk

Belle Yang

Belle Yang says:

Just read the linked post

and loved the window into your and Bill's life. Sweet, intimate and tender. I often think of you when I listen to BBC Radio 4. "The Walrus and the Terrier" was one of the offerings recently. It's about a journalists visit to Dr. Schweitzer's hospital deep in Africa. And then Anton Chekhov's "Swan Song" was on BBC Radio 3 last Sunday.

ox, B

 

Ericka Lutz

Ericka Lutz says:

I need to listen to the BBC more often

Thanks, Belle!