If you guessed Country Home, you’re correct. Although I also love MAD. Today I’m going to confess that while I haven’t fallen into the TV-home-show trap, I have subscribed to my share of decorating magazines over the years. As a result, I have a 3-G pet peeve. Good bones, Granville, and gay guys. 1. Good [...]
That was the text of a hand-lettered sign Chris found on the fence of our first-born’s nursery school at pick-up time one winter afternoon. There had been wild rumors of a giant cat roaming the general area, flames fanned by every TV station, and the nursery school wasn’t taking any chances with its defenseless tiny [...]
Last night, when homework and showers were done, the boys were dispersed through the house. Hugh and I were in the kitchen, watching the debate. He headed to the freezer to get one of the cartons of ice cream we had purchased at the grocery store last night (“only” $3 for each 1.5 quart container, [...]
While Emily has courageously taken a political position here, and some resulting heat, I Share and Enjoy:
The New York Times Online has a wonderful feature, Talk to the Newsroom, in which readers send questions to a different editor or writer each week. Last week, obituaries editor Bill McDonald was in the spotlight. He answered questions about whether or not celebrities try to shade aspects of their lives, how to write an [...]
After sending out an SOS for ideas on how to use up school portrait wallet-size pictures, and getting some suggestions (thank you!), I remembered that my friend Lindsay had sent a brilliant card when her first-born, Liam, was in first grade. And I actually found it in a box right near my desk within five [...]
Last night we all converged in the kitchen at 9 PM, post-homework by pre-arrangement, for The Office. In a second burst of uncharacteristic culinary initiative in one week, I’d made a quiche while Chris and Hugh were outside doing yard work, and all was in readiness. Except we couldn’t find Malcolm, who had been skateboarding, [...]
Attention, School Picture Studios! Times have changed! Kids still carry wallets but trust me, they are NOT trading photos of their friends like Pokemon cards, much less carting around a collection of postage-stamp-sized photos in their hip pocket. That is not cool. Now there’s FaceBook. Kids post photos, comment on them, and post updates on [...]
We live in a 1901 house. When we moved here in 1995, we loved the light, the fireplace, the extra space for an in-home office, the nice yard…but we hated the cruddy kitchen. Peeling ancient cabinets, a terrible layout, a mish-mash of depressing appliances – it was all horrible. It was intolerable. It had to [...]
We’ve all seen the opening lines of Anna Karenina referenced a million times: ‘Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.’ I never read the book. My book club has occasionally considered, then decided against, choosing it. Over the summer, one of those authors interviewed in Newsweek put it [...]
