Scheherazade F Mason

Twitter has been like living on a lively campus; many smart people talking about interests beyond my own. You have piqued my curiosity and expanded my understanding. Thanks, all. I think I am done here. I will miss this.

Otto's pizza has a James Beard guest chef special and Crab Rangoon pizza is really something. In the best way.

Homemade carrot-ginger soup, warm crusty bread, bourbon-allspice dram cocktail, and a good book. This is about as good as fall gets.

The thing is this has been a vague curiosity since college. So 27 years. Finally hunting it down!

As it turns out, I am not interested in Ataturk. I am interested in the Hat Law and the alphabet change he decreed. So I can just read those chapters of this book. A documentary helped me figure that out.

I am struggling for the second time to read a dense biography of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk. Might need to admit that Wikipedia and documentaries are more my speed here.

A good walk this morning.

20 years ago I parked in this spot every day, and felt a moment of joy walking to and from my car. In 4 months, I will park here again. A small, good thing.

Sending calm and confident thoughts out to all taking the bar exam.

Oh Lord. Summer camp was cancelled this past week, and my emergency hodgepodge scramble for child care left me exhausted. Just got an email notifying me that next week is now cancelled, too. COVID, of course.

Son returned to the pond to catch the blue frog. Here's a better photo. Life is very exciting.

My son and his babysitter saw a blue bullfrog today. Google says they are super rare. Cool!

Power! What will you do with it?

I have a lot of shortcomings as a mother, but I make cinnamon toast for a snack whenever my kid has friends over, and I think that counts for something.

Life advice from my 10 year old. Wise fella.

Wowsers. Take a breath, then sit down and read it again.