Category Archives: Musings

A Broken System…

Posted on January 5, 2013 by Dawn Quyle Landau

Today I met once again with the powers that be at my son’s school. I can’t tell you how many of these meetings we’ve been called to or requested, but somewhere in the vicinity of 7 in three years. They … Continue reading →

Rate this:

Posted in Activist, Awareness, Blog, Daily Observations, Education, High School, Honest observations on many things, Life, Mothers, Musings, My world, Parenting, Tales From the Motherland, Teens, Writing | Tagged , , , , , , , , | 32 Comments

Life and Death in the Blogosphere

Posted on January 2, 2013 by Dawn Quyle Landau

In 2012 one of the biggest changes and influences in my life was writing, and more specifically: blogging. As the year began, blogging was still pretty new for me. While I had begun to find my groove, it was all … Continue reading →

Rate this:

Posted in Awareness, Beauty, Blog, Blogging, blogs, Daily Observations, Death, Death of parent, Dying, Freshly Pressed, Holidays, Honest observations on many things, Life, Musings, My world, Personal change, Tales From the Motherland, Writing | Tagged , , , , , , , , | 40 Comments

Mother, May I…

Posted on December 31, 2012 by Dawn Quyle Landau

To my mother, with love. For those of you who have been following my blog for a while, you know that New Year’s Eve is the anniversary of my mother’s death. For those of you who haven’t, it is one … Continue reading →

Rate this:

Posted in Awareness, Courage, Daily Observations, Death, Death of parent, Dying, Honest observations on many things, Huntington's Disease, Mothers, Musings, Parenting, Personal change, Tales From the Motherland, Writing | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | 19 Comments

The Middle: Leftovers

Posted on December 26, 2012 by Dawn Quyle Landau

This Christmas I realized something… there are a lot of leftover feelings and memories that cloud the holidays for me. Melancholy falls on me as Christmas approaches and shift my experience, as hard as I try to surround myself with … Continue reading →

Rate this:

Posted in Aging, Awareness, Beauty, Blog, Christmas, Daily Observations, Death of parent, Holidays, Honest observations on many things, Life, Music, Musings, Parenting, Writing | Tagged , , , , , , , | 21 Comments

Moo, Baa, Fa-La-La!

Posted on December 22, 2012 by Dawn Quyle Landau

In the spirit of the season and to support a good cause, this is a Fundraising Post for Heifer International.  Nathan Bransford is an author whose blog I follow closely. He’s done a fundraiser for Heifer International, on his own blog … Continue reading →

Rate this:

Posted in Blog, Blogging, Christmas, Holidays, how blogs work, Musings, My world, Wonderful Things, Writing | Tagged , , , , , , , | 68 Comments

Christmas Tripping

Posted on December 21, 2012 by Dawn Quyle Landau

Tonight we finally decorated our tree. I wanted to do it a week+ ago, but Smart Guy was visiting our daughter in Israel and Middle Man is off at college. Neither Little Man or I wanted to decorate the tree … Continue reading →

Rate this:

Posted in Aging, Awareness, Beauty, Blog, Christmas, Death of parent, Life, Mothers, Musings, My world, Parenting, Tales From the Motherland, Writing | Tagged , , , , , , , , | 14 Comments

The Middle: The End of the World Bums Me Out

Posted on December 19, 2012 by Dawn Quyle Landau

I’m trying not to let anxiety take over, what with only a few hours left to life on Earth… as I’ve known it. I am hoping that new theories are correct, and the Mayan predictions actually spoke to a cosmic … Continue reading →

Rate this:

Posted in Daily Observations, Honest observations on many things, Humor, Musings, My world, News, Tales From the Motherland, travel, Writing | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | 12 Comments

Don’t Speak… His Name.

Posted on December 17, 2012 by Dawn Quyle Landau

Since Friday when the horrific news of the Newtown, CT mass murder/shooting broke, the nation has been transfixed.  It’s hard to go on line, turn on the TV, pass a news stand- do anything outside of taking a shower, without … Continue reading →

Rate this:

Posted in Awareness, Blogging, blogs, Daily Observations, Death, Honest observations on many things, Life, Musings, News, Tales From the Motherland, Writing | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , | 28 Comments

“Our Hearts Are Broken Today”

Posted on December 15, 2012 by Dawn Quyle Landau

Today our President, Barack Obama, uttered those words, and anyone who was listening, anyone who saw the leader of our country struck silent for a moment, tearful, was touched. The news, that 27 people—20 of them very young children at … Continue reading →

Rate this:

Posted in Blog, Death, Honest observations on many things, Life, Mothers, Musings, My world, News, Parenting, Tales From the Motherland, Writing | Tagged , , , , , , , | 6 Comments

The Middle… Back In the Cave, We Spit In Our Mascara

Posted on December 12, 2012 by Dawn Quyle Landau

Ok, so maybe I’m not that old; I didn’t actually exist in cave days… but nearly. The mascara part, that’s true. It’s not the only thing we did differently. A whole bunch of things have changed since I rode my … Continue reading →

Rate this:

Posted in Aging, Awareness, Blogging, bullying, Christmas, Daily Observations, Holidays, Honest observations on many things, Humor, Life, Musings, My world, Parenting, Personal change, Sarcasm, Tales From the Motherland, Writing | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | 18 Comments