This is extraordinary. Thanks to bloggers who posted it and friends who emailed it. Yes, we are too cynical by half. Yes, we can reinvent ourselves at midlife. Yes, people’s insides don’t always match their outsides. Yes, Simon Cowell can smile. Lessons for us all. And by the way I adore that song and always [...]
Only one pair of eyes open in the backseat driving home from Easter in Marion. Email this post
42 degrees and raining all day. Seriously? It’s official: the weather has broken me. Spring, where are you? Email this post
“The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.” Joseph Campbell Email this post
Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know. – James Baldwin I will try my best to give thanks for gifts strangely, painfully, beautifully wrapped. – Rebecca Wells Heavy-hearted today. Email this post
The phone rang tonight. It was for Grace. It was Andrew, the 7 year old grandson of my in-laws’ next-door-neighbors in Florida. I guess Grace and Andrew really bonded during her Florida trip in March. He was calling to “say hi.” Yikes. Sadly she was not here, so she will call him back, but … [...]
“The most important thing she’d learned over the years was that there was no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.” – Jill Churchill I also like this comment by Carl Honore, author of Under Pressure: Rescuing Our Children from the Culture of Hyper-Parenting: “To me, Slow [...]
Quotes from the weekend: Whit: “It’s bad to honk.” Grace: “No, it’s okay to honk. Like sometimes if the driver in the car in front of you at a red light is on their blackberry and they don’t notice the light is green so you honk to let them know the light is green.” Whit, [...]
Grace, Whit and I went to Wild Child in Arlington to visit my friend Dana Klein (store owner), get photographs taken (she had a photographer there today), and make a couple of small purchases. Grace’s American Girl doll came along for the ride. … See my Tabblo> Email this post
