There comes a time in a young man’s life when he must learn the lessons of his elders… when he must embrace the unwritten laws of the family no matter how difficult they are to comprehend… when he must test his mettle and choose between that which beckons from his heart and that which [...]
National Parks are on my mind, what with Ken Burns’ new documentary airing on PBS. It’s true, the concept of preserving the most phenomenal land in this nation for the people, for all time, is a brilliantly democratic concept. This seemed like a timely moment to share one of my favorite photos of all time. Not the [...]
I wrote the following yesterday after a particularly challenging weekend with the brothers who couldn’t seem to stop nagging and complaining and fighting with one another. Today is Yom Kippur – a time when Jews ask for and grant forgiveness. This does a little of both for me as it relates to my boys. To [...]
The power of a simple punctuation mark should not be underestimated. Yesterday was National Punctuation Day. I celebrated by going back to high school, where I proofread the syllabus from each of Hugh’s classes. Could there be any word more confusing to English writers than its as a possessive? Let me answer my own question: no. So [...]
Warning: The following post contains language that may make some MoB readers uncomfortable. It sure made me cringe. On Monday night I was pleased to find that Noah had finished his homework without any nagging encouragement from me. He was about to go to bed when he suddenly got the same startled look in his eyes that [...]
Kudos to Emily for her exquisite timing of the Waldorf Astoria Presidential Suite post yesterday! I had never really heard of the luxe accommodations until she got bumped up to them last week. Yesterday, in perfect synch with her post, the Suite was all over the news because President Obama had checked in. Sadly, too [...]
My overnight trip to New York last Wednesday was a last minute one, due to an early morning meeting that came together in the eleventh hour. My boss had warned that getting a hotel room would be next to impossible as it was Fashion Week and United Nations Week. But I tried anyway and was pleased [...]
I am a person of color. If the color is the FLESH crayon found in the old 64 box. Everyone in the world is a person of size. Most of us have jeans of blue. Some individuals are persons of interest. And OK, the five folks in our family are people of no color. We admit it, we [...]
Today is the last day of my 11 day full body cleanse. By the way, for those who are wondering, there were NO enemas involved in this process. I just had to say that for fear that you might think there were. When you hear the word body cleanse, most people think enema. Did you? [...]
Today’s post is a bit of this and that. Permit me some random musings. First, who could resist a scholarly work by Dr. Willy on The Illustrated Book of Sex? This 60-year-old tome happened to be donated to our public library, where it failed to find a buyer in the book sale, though it was a bargain [...]
