February 2015 – Caroline Mitchell Carrico

The Museum’s Best Friends

Originally posted on The Pink Palace Family of Museums:
In 1959, a group of volunteers from the Junior League of Memphis started the Youth Museum project at the Pink Palace. They created touchable exhibits and led tours for school children. After several years of working with the museum, League volunteers Sara Misner and Merri Briggs…

Just don’t talk about my body

My body is mine. I know that other people can see it, but seeing is not ownership. Seeing what I look like and knowing what I think and feel are not linked. My body is not a topic for conversation. My body is not the most interesting thing about me, but it can do wonderfulContinue reading “Just don’t talk about my body”

Hard work

Every morning, I watch my almost toddling toddler begin his hard labor. This work will be constant throughout the day, but he starts every morning in a frenzy to make up for the hours spent on his stomach sleeping. First is reasserting his friendship with his seventy pound mutt. After a lot of mutual kisses and pats,Continue reading “Hard work”

Hope

As ever, I put the impossibly small seeds into dirt and wait.

My Valentines

This year, I have three Valentines. My kid: My niece: And, of course, Greg. Instead of painting me a card, he is going to grill nice steaks in the cold and share a bottle of wine with me. It’s our traditional way to show we care.

Be Mine, Valentine

Originally posted on The Pink Palace Family of Museums:
Legend tells us that St. Valentine was an early Christian martyr who was imprisoned and sentenced to death for secretly marrying young soldiers despite Roman Emperor Claudius II’s ban on the practice. Before being executed, Valentine befriended his jailor’s daughter and wrote her a note signed…

A new garden plot

After some serious discussion and much internal debating, we decided not to get chickens like we had initially planned. Instead, we are going to use the back corner of our yard where we were going to put a coop as a kitchen garden. That area gets the most sun and is practically shaped so asContinue reading “A new garden plot”

Libraries We Love – The Pink Palace Library

I wrote a guest post for the Little Free Library’s blog about our LFL at the Pink Palace. Check it out! Libraries We Love – The Pink Palace Library.

Down and up again

To set the scene: there is peace in the kingdom. The dog is upstairs; the kid is playing with a toy. I’m sitting in a chair alternately reading and having a conversation in repeated monosyllables while exercising my peripheral vision. Then it gets too quiet for a moment and the crying starts. Baby down. AfterContinue reading “Down and up again”

2015 in Books, January

I started off 2015 by finishing up a few stragglers from 2014: Neverwhere: A Novel by Neil Gaiman Neil Gaiman is one of my favorite authors; I have yet to read one of his books that did not capture my imagination. Neverwhere is set in London Below, the underground city that parallels London Above along theContinue reading “2015 in Books, January”