Eleven years ago, we were married. In a thunderstorm so loud we had to pause during the vows. Accompanied by two readings: an excerpt from The Book of Qualities and Cavafy’s Ithaka. By a minister from East Greenwich, RI, who was dear to my maternal grandparents, especially my grandmother who had recently died. In the [...]
I’m breaking my August Break to share with you my sister’s new blog. Hilary – wise, brilliant, loving, the only person who shares my unique and bizarre terroir – and her husband and two daughters are moving to Jerusalem for a year. On Tuesday. She’s decided to document her experiences and learnings from this surely [...]
Still life with my beloved cousin, Whit, and hydrangeas. Email this post
L-R: me, my mother, my godmother, my godsister R-L: A, her mother, her godmother, her godsister I love my godfamily. Email this post
Home from a long weekend with my whole family (other than my wonderful brother-in-law). We had a very windy sail, a birthday, a whole lot of laughter and a few tears, a lost tooth, ice cream and fireworks. Back tomorrow. Email this post
It is finally summer. A few images of the last several days: Crazy gorgeous blue sky. I love the faint tracing of an airplane’s straight line juxtaposed with the puffy clouds. A reminder of all that is linear and all that is utterly non-linear. Grace on the camp bus. Continuing to try to let go. [...]
I always think of their shoulder blades as wings. Their wings, poking through their skin. And his little back has two freckles on it now, marks marring his white, skim-milk skin, my skin. Life beginning to make its mark on my child. The wings, though, are on my mind today. The wings. This past winter [...]
“How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers’ names.” Alice Walker I was on the phone recently with one of my best friends who was headed to a family wedding, and our conversation shifted to talking about her aunts, uncles, and cousins who [...]
summer 2007 summer 2011 Still rocking the 3T seersucker suit. What happened to my baby? first day of Beginners, September 2009 last day of Kindergarten, June 2011 My baby is 6.5 He swims competently, though inelegantly. He reads short words. He loves Star Wars and Legos. He beats up on his sister. He makes me [...]
If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children, I should ask that her gift to each child in the world would be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life, as an unfailing antidote against the boredom and disenchantment of [...]
