As I write, I’m listening to one of my favorite David Gray songs on my little purple iPod, and the title seems to be the perfect headline for today’s post about taking Ian to college last Thursday with Chris. Yes, I cried, but only at the very end of the day….and only when I looked at [...]
Ian checks the old-fashioned mail every day, looking for his college roommate assignment. Word is, the envelopes were mailed out of Baltimore yesterday, so everyone in the Mid-Atlantic states should have his or her assignment today. Ian has not had a roommate since 1998, when Malcolm learned how to climb out of his crib. At [...]
Now that our firstborn’s Gap Year is drawing to a close, the jury is in. It was a great decision. Instead of going straight to college, Ian accepted an offer from Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) last May, then deferred for a year. As many MOB readers will recall, he spent the summer lifeguarding before going off [...]
By Day 5 of our Six Day Weekend, everyone was going a little stir-crazy. Too much TV, too much computer, too much texting, too much shoveling, too much rattling around the house. When the boys were little, this sort of scenario always meant getting them outside and letting them run. A playground, a field, even a sidewalk and a [...]
In our world, “gap” is now linked with the word “year,” and it means Ian is taking time off between high school graduation and freshman year of college. We’re completely on board with this concept. What a great idea, to take a bit of time before leaping from the frying pan into the fire. To have [...]
Today we’ll quickly revisit a couple of topics from the recent past. 1. The winner of the bad restaurant names is reader Tracie, who nominated Scales and Tails in Tallahassee. She will receive a vintage Florida tea towel, which I happen to know she will like. 2. The theme of Chris’s men-in-drag dance line last weekend was [...]
