I don’t know about you but it feels like it’s been 2014 for weeks already. Maybe we can blame the media for all the “What’s in Store” coverage that’s been coming at us since early December. Or maybe it’s my schedule of appointments, work travel, and kid stuff that has had me fixated on January [...]
There was a murder-suicide in our town over the weekend. The news trickled out slowly, first reaching me at Chase’s basketball game on Saturday afternoon when our close friend asked “if we had heard….”. A quick look at online reports offered a street name, followed by the ages of the shooter husband and his victim [...]
Yesterday, Chase celebrated his 14th birthday with a surprise snowfall that weather forecasters failed to predict. A light dusting that was supposed to turn quickly to rain instead dumped more than eight inches across the region, creating travel problems for many including yours truly. It’s always fascinating to see what people do when all along [...]
This year, we spent a lovely Thanksgiving weekend in Rhode Island with my in-laws. On Saturday, we escaped to the movies, a 3:00 p.m. matinee of Catching Fire. There were nine of us in total (4 teenagers, 5 adults), as my mother-in-law isn’t into ‘that kind of stuff’. But still it felt like a larger [...]
