I ran on Saturday morning in Florida. It was cold, 47 degrees, and I only had a tank top and shorts. By the end of my run my fingers were curled around my beloved orange iPod like a claw. It was dark when I set out, about 6:30. As I ran and watched the sun [...]
Time at the brand-new and utterly deserted playgroundReading in bed while a 4 year old boy watches Justice League on the computer next to meGrace’s increasing fluency navigating both an iPhone and a Mac, and her obsession with americangirl.comLouboutin espadrilles on top of Wired magazineEndless Go Fish gamesShivering by the pool, wrapped in towels, while [...]
Oh this reminds me of my post about how I am the photographer, and the ramifications this has to my ability to be present. This is, as far as I am concerned, as close to perfect prose as I have ever read. It traces the collision of poetry and physics. A way of seeing that [...]
Hilary and me with each of our first-born children, spring 2006. This is not my first love letter to Hilary, nor will it be my last. Hils has been on my mind this week, as she celebrates her fifth anniversary and as I reflect on even-year Thanksgivings in Marion with our entire family. My mother [...]
With so much love to Hils and T – five fabulous years. Can’t imagine life without HMG and MMG. Love. xoxo Email this post
My children, who are like surly teenagers when I wake them up before school, both bounded out of bed on Wednesday morning at 6:00 without a single complaint. “Is it today?” they both asked as I shook them awake. We were at the airport bright and early (I have a well-documented early problem, which might [...]
Thanksgiving 2002 My grandfather, my mother, me, and my daughter. We all have the same family name: Eldredge. I miss you, Ba. Email this post
Thanksgiving. My heart is full, the kind of fullness that verges on discomfort. I reread my 2007 and 2008 posts about what I was thankful for, and it all still feels right today. Also in my mind right now, adding to the fullness of my heart, is the memory of seven years ago, of my [...]
Today is day two of Present Tense, an exploration of how various wonderful, wise women work to be more present in their daily lives. I am honored today to share the words of Heather of the Extraordinary Ordinary. Heather’s blog has become one of my most cherished. She truly does as the title says: she [...]
My dad always said that parenting was 95% nature. I admit I didn’t fully believe him until I had my second child. And I was shocked, within days, by how very different this baby was than his sister had been. Where Grace was colicky and sleepless, Whit slept and cooed and smiled. She was dark, [...]
