A couple of weeks ago, Whit had a high fever all weekend. He was listless and not himself, he threw up a couple of times, and his fever just would not come down. Plus for three days in a row he took 2+ hour naps in the afternoon. As delightful as his sleeping and his [...]
The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms. – Socrates We were visiting friends at the beach this past week, and at one point I was with Grace in the ocean. Despite the heat of the day, the water was cold, and we were standing right at the edge of the waves’ breaking, tip-toeing [...]
I’ve watched this many times now. Each time I end up with tears rolling down my face. It’s worth the time to watch it. We all need someone who thinks we’re truly amazing. I know this as much as I know anything. I think, again, to Bindu’s excellent post several months ago that said clearly [...]
This boy. This boy has two brown-eyed parents and four brown-eyed grandparents. And those blue eyes. (also, a continuing passion for mardi gras beads) I can’t tell you how many people say, jokingly, “Hmmm … the mailman?” Each time, I ask, with varying degrees of patience, if the commenter remembers the basics of dominant and [...]
I am heavy and full right now, waterlogged with feeling, tired and a bit burned from exposure to the sun, both literal and figurative. The changes of the last month or two are settling in, making themselves at home, and the rhythm of this new reality (albeit an interlude for just this summer, which creates [...]
Emily (softly, more in wonder than in grief): I can’t bear it. They’re so young and beautiful. Why did they ever have to get old? Mama, I’m here. I’m grown up. I love you all, everything. – I can’t look at everything hard enough. …. Emily (in a loud voice to the Stage Manager): I [...]
I drove down to Marion on Thursday evening with Grace and Whit. Blue hydrangeas for Mum’s birthday. Friday morning we walked to watch Mum play tennis. Friday afternoon G, W and I went to the beach. Grace toiled long and hard on this sand castle, complete with seaweed flag. Saturday afternoon we had a drink [...]
I loved Martha’ McPhee’s Dear Money. The book’s voice is funny and smart, its observations nuanced and searing. Martha’s thoughtful commentary is both right on the money (as it were) and somewhat scary. There is so much in Dear Money that made me smile with wry identification, so many details that rang true from both [...]
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Two years ago, I wrote this … how far we’ve come and yet how things are still the same. The requisite parade photograph will come on Monday (I may have to do a retrospective as I have many years of parade photographs now!) Anyway … Fourth of July, 2008: Happy Fourth! The parade was its [...]
