http://www.pashacarroll.com/blog A writer's blog Mon, 30 Aug 2010 18:14:35 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en By Pasha Holiday Once the test shows positive, most women will impulsively go out and buy What to Expect When You are Expecting. The book, like a rite of passage into pregnancy, has evolved over the years from a matronly, full-bellied expectant mother in a rocking chair on the cover to ... http://www.pashacarroll.com/blog/?p=150 By Pasha Holiday I love magazines. Just about any of them. I have never been the person that can just sit with my thoughts. Instead, I prefer to be with a writer’s thoughts and ideas. That is how I became a magazine junkie. My table is littered with the magazines of my ... http://www.pashacarroll.com/blog/?p=149 By Pasha Holiday We all knew this was going to happen. In a family of six women that get pregnant when a man looks their way, it really was inevitable. That is how I got 16 nieces and nephews (and two great-nieces!) And to think I even spent a moment of ... http://www.pashacarroll.com/blog/?p=148 By Pasha Holiday Ever wonder how the heck all of the old geezers got so smart? How is is that all of the 60-year-olds seem to know so much more than us about life? Why is it that when we are putting in a new light fixture ... http://www.pashacarroll.com/blog/?p=147 By Pasha Holiday I wish I could say I spent my time painting landscapes and portraits, but my unsteady hand would never go for that. No, my expertise is for another kind of painting, the kind that requires rollers and overalls. And, so, over the past six months I have become ... http://www.pashacarroll.com/blog/?p=146 By Pasha Holiday There is something about March, about the first month of spring, about the first days of sunshine and the clocks leaping an hour ahead. March marks the beginning of Chicago's true loveliness, a season where cooped up city-dwellers lace up their running shoes and dust off their bikes, ... http://www.pashacarroll.com/blog/?p=145 By Pasha Holiday My memories do not reach most of my childhood. I get vivid flashbacks of playing in the grass or standing at the screen door watching the yellow school bus carry my siblings off. But as far as the important memories a person should retain, like Christmas morning or ... http://www.pashacarroll.com/blog/?p=144 By Pasha Holiday I think about my life and my future and I think about how everyday has always been a someday. For many of the times I have said, "someday I will do this," I have. I worked towards making it happen and realized my goal. Even so, nearly everyday ... http://www.pashacarroll.com/blog/?p=143 By Pasha Holiday When allotted only moments of reflection in life and of the year gone by, my moment is chosen in the relative quiet of wherever I happen to be. One Christmas it was in Spain, another in my in-laws basement, but most years I reflect at my childhood home ... http://www.pashacarroll.com/blog/?p=142 By Pasha Holiday Who needs brand spanking new hardwoods anyway? For us, the bright-eyed, first-time homeowners, the hardwoods that already laid over our living room and dining room were gems to be sanded, more than 100 years of love and goodness. And warping and wax and gunk and funk. Sanding and ... http://www.pashacarroll.com/blog/?p=141