I have a weird and childlike enthusiasm for random questionnaires (and an insatiable appetite for other peoples’ answers). Excerpted from Elle If you could come back as a dress, what would it be? hmmm … one of Mia Farrow’s little boxy minidresses like the one she married Frank Sinatra in, maybe What’s your favorite color? [...]
Which was great even when the skies opened two minutes before the end of her lesson. I do like me a crazy summer thunderstorm. She and I were drenched (luckily I was not wearing only a single layer of white cotton, as she was) when we got to the car. Literally soaked to the skin. [...]
These animated children, builders of Lego towers topped with Lego men, devourers of blue frosting … I am trying to let them bring me back from the melancholy that pulls me like a tide. It’s hard. Email this post
Am on unsteady ground of late and trying to find my balance. I need to find faith in myself. Rilke, again, gives me solace: …have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don’t [...]
This morning I took both children to camp, with my usual pitstop at Starbucks. We got to BB&N and walked to the door where we drop Gracie off. I went in with her and Whit stood outside, uncharacteristically quiet and pensive. When I came out I took his hand and we headed back to the [...]
Everyone is sort of burned out around here. Sound asleep by 7:15. I am hot on their heels. Email this post
Things that remind me of my Dad: Used bookstores The smell of pipes Running Wesleyan University, especially the Alpha Delta Phi house A notebook full of handwritten (in fountain pen) mathmatical derivations, like of the angles between the streets of L’Etoile in Paris. Europe’s cathedrals A ski trip the two of us to Zermatt – [...]
Grace, hiking this weekend. Apparently on Saturday afternoon she climbed onto a rock on the edge of a lake, lost her balance, and fell completely in. She then took off her shirt and her crocs and went swimming in just her shorts. I love this about her. She is capable of approaching life with total [...]
From the top:August 1993, Nauset BeachJuly 1995, Land Ho!, Jessica’s 21st birthday eveningJune 1999, Portsmouth RI, Jessica and Jake’s wedding day Email this post
