Lately, life has been a crazy comedy of errors. Chris and I (professional PR people) mis-hear and mis-read each other’s plans. “I thought you were doing the shopping after you went to the gym and before you returned the library books and dropped off the dry cleaning.” Headshaking. “No, you had the list and were [...]
Warning: the following words may cause your blood pressure to skyrocket. Wrapping Paper Cookie dough Pizza dough Daffodils Bat-a-Thon Shoot-a-Thon Relay for Life This is not a jump rope chant or one family’s shopping and activity list for the weekend. No. This is actually a list of ways for schools, sports, and charities to raise money through [...]
Yesterday, the weather was sunny, warm, and perfect. As we left for Malcolm’s baseball game at 6 PM, I grabbed a hooded sweatshirt, worrying, “Will this be enough?” Chris assured me it would. After all, the air was still balmy. The car was roasting. The sun was strong when we arrived. I knew that before long, I [...]
One of my favorite volunteer jobs is running the Attic Treasures booth for our local library’s May Fair. Not only do I love the cause, but our library looks like it belongs in a Beatrix Potter book. The old part is stone, and cottagey, with beautiful soaring windows in the reading room and flowering trees [...]
I am so jealous of all the young moms who, through blogs, are documenting the lives of their children, from the moment of “congratulations, you’re pregnant” on through all the Firsts: smiles, rolling overs, steps, teeth, words, day of school, sleepaway camp…. Those are the years of maximum cuteness, and how fantastic to be able to efficiently and fairly [...]
It was 1972. My friend Lisa was in love with Jim Croce, and I was in love with Cat Stevens. Our crushes were partly based on the fact that we lived in Missouri, surrounded by Scots-Irish-Anglo blond boys – and the exotic swarthy hirsute looks of our Greek and Italian crushes were very hot. When [...]
Some months ago, Malcolm was having trouble falling asleep and asked if I would come talk to him. Bedtime books and stories already largely a thing of the past, this was a rare request. Specifically, he wanted to hear stories from my childhood. So I regaled him with the tale of the time I ran away from school [...]
In our school district, kids received their high school letters last night – not for football, soccer, or lacrosse - but for achievement in the ARTS. It was like our own mini-Oscars. The title of this post comes from the T-shirt worn by one of the attendees. We clapped loudly and often for high achievement in rocking-chair-woodcrafting, [...]
Can I just say how very thankful I am that Emily and I share the writing job at this blog? Coming up with fresh material 5 days a week all by myself would be hugely stressful. Even if I had enough good material on my own, which I wouldn’t, where would the time come from to [...]
OK, now I can’t run for public office. Look at what happened to Caroline Kennedy. This is from a story in yesterday’s New York Times about an ethics panel looking into how Caroline’s candidacy for New York senator was derailed. “During the selection process, Ms. Kennedy and other candidates had filled out detailed questionnaires…The questionnaires asked [...]
