3.5 – miles run at 6am 75 – minutes spent on the runway at Logan before taking off 10 – number of times the cell phone of the elderly woman sitting next to me rang (loudly) before she successfully picked it up 18 – floor I erroneously got off on en route to my first [...]
Grace is sleeping over at Clemmie’s tomorrow night. She has been avidly counting down the days until the sleepover, which was postponed from the last Friday in April. She has a calendar at her desk and she crosses off a day every day. The other morning she asked me how many days until the sleepover?” [...]
As we know, Whit is deeply enamored of his exercise pants. Oh, my, is he hilarious. This afternoon I was in my office when Grace and Whit came storming upstairs. Grace was talking to me about her day when Whit came out of his room (wearing his very favorite shirt, from Gloria), a knot of [...]
Lisa Belkin’s blog today is thought-provoking and articulately states something I’ve been inarticulately thinking about. She writes about the tension between pushing forward and holding back that seems to define so much of current parenting. Today’s parents, critics tell us, are managing to mess up our kids in two contradictory yet somehow simultaneous ways. On [...]
A vet who apparently colors her hair to make it orange. Oh, I am proud. Email this post
(when in doubt, post the art) One little thing about Grace’s school I really like is that when we get there early (which, duh, is every time I take her to school) Grace picks a book from the library return box and we sit and read it. Every morning there are at least 3 or [...]
“I never had to choose a subject – my subject rather chose me.”-Ernest Hemingway(found on one of my favorite blogs – thank you) Email this post
