Welcome to Syra’s Scribbles.
I have been blogging about my family for twenty years. Taking care of my mom and six children have given me much to write about over the years. Ten years after the blogs are written, I republish them in a collection with a little 2020 hindsight. Welcome to my life.
Latest from Syra
Our First Trick-or-Treating
In this season of life, I celebrate Halloween my own way. I’m the only one in the family who danced Michael Jackson’s Thriller this year at Albuquerque Thrill the World dressed as a zombie bride. I’m the only one who went to a Tolkien book club dressed as an elf. We didn’t go to a…
Danger Boulder
Would you risk exposure to a biohazard in the name of art? I hope you would say no. This fall I found out that my answer to that question is yes. On a quiet Wednesday evening after the baklava party, I made spaghetti with fried mushrooms, vegetable-based ‘meat’, topped with nutritional yeast powder, and was…
Whitewater River Rafting
I’m rarely in danger, but on the Sunday of Labor Day Weekend this year, it was nice to have a strong thirty-something-year-old man wrap his arm around me to keep me safe. John and Rosi had traveled from Oklahoma to Taos, New Mexico, for a long weekend getaway. Xenia, my fifteen-year-old, and I were taking…
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