This was a big weekend for Whit witticisms. Or just funny behavior. After channeling the Luke Wilson’s angsty neo-preppy all day yesterday, he woke up (at 6am no less) full of vim and vigor. I busted him late this morning in the dining room, pants around his ankles, leaning forward and about to pee into [...]
I absolutely love this post: Lies I’ve told my three year old recently. It is funny and poignant and right on the money. Makes me think of things I tell the children – the only one that comes to mind is the way I do a little bad dreams/monsters/dragons go away dance by their beds [...]
Channeling the Royal Tenenbaums today. Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature. – CS Lewis Ready for my miracle anytime. Email this post
“It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in her head.” – Sally Kempton Email this post
Midwives attend over 70% of births in Europe and Japan. In the US, under 8%. I just started the Business of Being Born, and I already love it. This is a love letter to midwifery. Which anyone who knows me knows is very near to my heart, and a possible future road I want to [...]
My children, entertained to the nines by a long, slow walk around the block, April 2008. We went to the drycleaner, the pharmacy, smelled flowers, jumped off of walls, counted bricks, petted dogs, and generally enjoyed at least an hour in our very own neighborhood.I was delighted to find the following article, “Idle parenting means [...]
I wish I could be half as sure of anything as some people are of everything. – Gerald Barzan When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy. – Salman Rushdie Read an interesting article just now about the notion of a “nanny test” as predictor of how someone would function as a corporate [...]
Altogether a lovely day. The children slept until 8, which means I did too (I don’t care for this holiday, Mothers Day, but if I did that would be the only gift I’d want anyway!). Then we went to the Church of the Redeemer for Emma’s christening. Shockingly Whit and Grace sat in the pew [...]
“From the first he loved Princeton – its lazy beauty, its half-grasped significance, the wild moonlight revel of the rushes, the handsome, prosperous big-game crowds …” – Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise Tomorrow is Pops’ 90th birthday celebration. Wow! What an icon this man is. I know there will be Princeton talk, possibly some handing [...]
The only wisdom we can hope to acquireIs the wisdom of humility; humility is endless – TS Eliot, Four Quartets Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. -Carl Sagan (I know, I know, you think that quotes are a cop-out. Sorry, they are speaking to me today. And inspiration is not.) Email this post
