Whit, armed and dangerous with his mask and broom-slash-weapon, riding a tractor. He is so funny these days. The weekend was positively wonderful.Saturday morning Elizabeth and I took the four children to breakfast at Hi Rise and then played at the park for 3 1/2 hours. They ran, climbed, dug, yelled, chased, and swung for [...]
Wear sunscreen. If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be it. Scientists have proven the long-term benefits of sunscreen, whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my own meandering experience. I will dispense this advice now. Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth. [...]
This morning, driving to camp, Whit pointed through the sunroof and said, “Mummy, the clouds are peaceful.” I turned around, surprised, and said, “Peaceful, Whitty?” And he said, “In pieces.” The sky was mottled with faint clouds. I love clouds, both aesthetically and metaphorically. Whit was right, in both his intended and mistaken observations: the [...]
I am listening to a new mix I made and cooking right now. This is my favorite kind of cooking: using whatever vegetables I have around to make something I invent as I go along. I am a very casual cook – it is either an exception to my personality or evidence that I am [...]
We had the most wonderful mellow morning. Grace and I took Whit to a birthday party and then wandered around, playing with a friend, climbing trees, skipping on the rocks in the sprinkler rocks by the Harvard Science Center. She climbed up very high in this tree and wanted to go higher. This was as [...]
Every year I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing, and which shirking pain, misses happiness as well. No one ever yet was the poorer in the long run for having [...]
You can tell time by what I’m drinking: 7am-8am Starbucks venti nonfat latte 8am-4pm Diet Coke, ideally lime or else regular 4pm-9pm white wine on the rocks throughout: water from a reused Evian bottle, the plastic of which is apparently going to cause the cancer that will kill me.
