After a summer of utterly brutal heat and stifling humidity, we are enjoying gorgeous early fall days. Crisp, clear, blue-skied, sunny, and warm-ish. Perfect, splendid September, we welcome you. This past weekend I found myself in several iconic Philadelphia locations: the Pennsylvania Historical Society, Rittenhouse Square and the Phillies ballpark. Early drafts of the Constitution were [...]
Spending time in a rocking chair on the porch used to be code for “put out to pasture.” In our case, it was getting rid of the pasture that was our old yard, and turning some of it into a garden, that has made us want to sit in a rocking chair on the porch [...]
Close family friends, the Fryers, were with us on Christmas Day. Although the addition of Jim and Sam meant another two guys in the house, with Laura and daughter Jane and Sam’s girlfriend Becca here, we females were actually a force to be reckoned with. And I could wrap up girly things like lip gloss and cute books in angel [...]
Today’s headline is my favorite palindrome. As a Philadelphia-area-resident who has a son who hates bananas, it resonates. One great feature of family reunions is that you find other people with the same likes/dislikes as you. Banana-hating has been found on the 18th chromosome of our DNA. It is expressed most clearly in the forms of my [...]
When a friend sent us this photo he snapped of Ian graduating on Friday, I was so grateful. Let’s just say I had a view of the back of his mortarboard. I’ll spare you the details of the chaotic hell-ride-in-the-rain to graduation that caused us not to be able to sit with my dad in the four [...]
It’s easy to forget, staying at home in one’s comfy routine, how much fun it is to get away and be with people you love in a different place. Dread of packing, closing up the house, trudging barefoot through airport security, renting a car, sleeping in a bed not my own – without my own perfect [...]
January – a blank page. Surrounded by oceans of sparkling white snow, under blue blue skies by day and billions of stars by night, this new beginning in the Rockies feels mythic. Everyone slept until nearly noon today. We took our time having lunch, lounging in PJs to chat or play games. Pente, Operation, Apples [...]
