Had a really nice walk around the east side of Providence today. Lots of gorgeous white steeples and beautiful brick buildings against an achingly blue sky. FINALLY the sun is out. I could feel sunshine on my neck and envisioned it slowly unknotting the perma-hunch my shoulders have taken on in these endless raw and [...]
I’m reading a memorial to Lindsey Pyle in the Shady Hill Quarterly, and it has me thinking about those long-ago years (mine, of course, at a different school). There is a group of six girls from those years who loom large in my memory. Four of us have lost our mothers – certainly an unusually [...]
The relentless gloom outside has permeated my mood. Pictures above were sent to me today from Mike Halperson – Long Pond at sunrise and sunset. I wish I had my time machine to transport me there, scene of many happy childhood days … or to other places in memory where the sun shines, either literally [...]
Stunned and shocked today. One of my father’s best friends, a man whose family we grew up with in Paris, has unexpectedly dropped dead of a heart attack. A reminder of mortality, generally, and also of our lives transitioning to a place where our parents’ generation may begin to ail and die. Feeling sad and [...]
Another skinless parenting moment. Dropped Gracie and Matt off at Logan. Grace has been levitating with excitement for days about her trip. I walked into school to pick her up today at 2 and she just stared at me and said, “NOW?” We had a brief torrent of tears at saying goodbye, and then my [...]
This is really always fascinating. I particularly liked the take on how names move through the class ranks in Freakonomics. Email this post
The whole perfect-girl thing that was referenced in Peggy Orenstein’s princess article (see here) is getting a lot of airtime these days. Huge article in the Sunday Times a few weekends ago on the topic Nerve-wracking. I have not consciously done so, but when I think about how we schedule Grace’s time, I realize I [...]
On this day of new beginnings, which are necessarily chaotic, two old but good quotations. Pictures & stories from our extended family celebration to come later. As always, thinking of Nana on Easter. And absolutely loved our new minister’s sermon about Mary Magdalene this morning – I think I finally understand SOME connection between Christianity’s [...]
Heard the “525,600 minutes” song from Rent this morning while running. I’ve been thinking about all the ways we can measure a life. As the song says: cups of coffee, things that you learn, sunsets, etc. Reminded me of the theme I keep coming back to, over and over again: being mindful of how we [...]
