Gratitude has been on my mind. The Lamott quote, I love, plus the familiar one that “Gratitude is one of the least articulate of the emotions, especially when it is deep” (Felix Frankfurter). There is so much I am grateful for! The challenge is remembering that, and letting the awareness of my own blessings temper [...]
Evidence of my multipolar life: this weekend’s reading. The EconomistCookieReal SimpleDominoCelebutantesYour Three Year Old: Friend or Enemy?LuckyVogue Email this post
Am reading Cookie, my favorite parenting magazine. Interesting and thought-provoking article on raising grateful children. Surely something most of us would say we aim for. Turns out is all comes down to the parents. Who would have thought! (just kidding). “What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly” – Thomas Paine Elegaic light from [...]
Crazy beautiful blue sky today. Have the Allman Brothers running through my head. Making me smile thinking of long ago days in high school and current people who make me very happy. Email this post
Grace at dinner last night, Border Cafe. Does she look five or fifteen? I was totally unprepared for the question that came up as we were walking back to the car: “Mummy, how do the baby seeds get into the mummy’s tummy?” Hell-o. Thank GOD for you, Jennifer Hawkins! Armed with our conversation just last [...]
I love living in Cambridge. Am all about this liberal education. In a move that’s created massive angst in her father, Grace has been running around all week singing “Obama, O-bah-ma” … I think it’s just a catchier name than McCain or Clinton, and I really don’t think the teachers have endorsed a single candidate, [...]
Happy valentine’s day! I don’t like this holiday and never have. Did enjoy a lovely valentine breakfast at CES and have been getting all kinds of emails from people with adorable pictures of their children. That’s a valentine tradition I can embrace. Now. As we all know everyone loves lists and most people love minutiae. [...]
I am oddly moved by the image of Heath Ledger’s friends and family walking into the ocean at sunset after his funeral. This strikes me as an incredibly lovely way to say goodbye. As I ran today I thought about the ocean and the essential role it plays in my life: summers by Cape Cod [...]
