I have written a lot about friendships, about those few fertile times in my life that I’ve made special ones, about how few true native speakers I’ve met, about the immense value I place on my female friends. I was with one of those native speakers this weekend, and I can’t fully articulate the joy, [...]
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You know those people who remind you where you came from, and, more importantly, who you are? Well, I was fortunate enough to spend this weekend with mine. And I am a lucky woman to have such phenomenal, funny, brilliant, supportive, and dance-loving friends. The luckiest woman in the world. (photo is during the toast [...]
Two godsisters in a boat, on an unforgettable day. Email this post
Highlight of a wonderful weekend: picking up a mooring in the outer harbor, calm, dark August ocean, jumping off of the boat holding hands, cold Heinekens, four children laughing uproariously, friends who are family. Email this post
The summer camp I attended was a vitally important place to me. I spent nine summers there, up to and including two as a counselor. In the rapidly shifting seas of my family life (we moved back and forth across and ocean in those nine summers) camp was the one steady place, a raft moored [...]
We met in a cluttered cabin full of bunk beds, trunks, old-school tape-deck radios, and pink pattered pillowcases. We walked to the shower cabin with our shampoo in square plastic buckets with handles, wood chips sticking to our feet even though we wore flipflops. She starred in the camp musical. I watched and applauded, my [...]
I’m stunned that we are already halfway through summer. This surprise is not unlike the way spring’s arrival startles me every year. We round the curve to the Fourth of July, cheer at the wonderfully small-town-ish parade at my parents’ house, and suddenly things seem to move more quickly. Grace is off to sleepaway camp [...]
I’m off the grid this weekend. So, so off the grid. At a cabin in the White Mountains (that’s the actual cabin, above). This is the fourth annual trip: we hike up, spend the night, and hike down on Sunday. We are now a group 40+ strong, half children. This is another stool adventure, and [...]
From the first he loved Princeton—its lazy beauty, its half-grasped significance, the wild moonlight revel of the rushes, the handsome, prosperous big-game crowds… (Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise) Princeton takes reunions very seriously. Very. This weekend is my 15th. This will be Matt’s 3rd reunion and for the first time, we are bringing the kids. [...]
