I can’t believe a week’s gone by and I’ve neglected to share how we celebrated the second anniversary of Sophie’s “happy heart”. Aside from the fact that Ray and Annabelle were gone camping with the Brownies, it was a perfect day. There was time for cuddling in bed, a bath and hair brushing before ballet. […]
A couple weeks before Halloween, I was driving to work and noticed they were putting holiday lights on the trees that line Mill Avenue, the main drag in our college town. I started to harrumph — and I stopped myself. This year, I vowed, I will not complain about how early the holidays start. I […]
I always try to put the Halloween stuff away the day after. I might have five overflowing laundry baskets in my dining room at the moment, and be perfectly okay with it — but to me, there’s something unacceptably untidy about having holiday detritus around after the holiday in question is over. Maybe I drove […]
This weekend, my dear friend Trish took her 16 year old son Zach to get a tattoo. For the coolest reason ever. So I asked if I could take a picture and show you. (The tattoo runs much of the length of the inside of his forearm.) Zach’s diabetic. This will serve as his “medic […]
Tomorrow is the second anniversary of Sophie’s second open-heart surgery. This afternoon Ray and Annabelle left on a Brownie camping trip (earning my husband the Dad of the Year award, since he didn’t renege when he learned he was the only father going!) so it will be just the two of us this weekend. Sophie and I will be busy […]
The second part of my series “The Lost Kids” is out this week. The day before the story came out, a Facebook friend across the country posted a really beautiful quote from “A Prayer for Owen Meaney” by John Irving. I found it an odd coincidence. The story of Cynthia Clark Harvey’s struggle to get […]
Time to strap on the helmets. That’s what I thought this morning as I watched Sophie learning to ride a scooter with her physical therapist. I should probably put one on, too. I have a feeling I’m pretty much Public Enemy Number 1 at school today. I’m not thrilled with that, but c’est la vie […]
It’s official. Sophie is a victim. At our meeting this morning, the principal informed me that per the school’s anti-bully policy, Sophie now has a file that includes information about last week’s bullying incident. Sophie’s got a victim file, the principal added unnecessarily. That’s the only time during the meeting I teared up. The principal confirmed […]
The other day, one of my closest friends — a woman in many ways far more demure than I — suggested gently that perhaps I shouldn’t blog about certain things. She was worried because word was out that I’d criticized my girls’ school for allowing the third graders to share recorders during a flu epidemic. I […]
You know that Bare Naked Ladies song “If I Had a Million Dollars?” Well, if I had a million dollars, I’d spend it the way Maxine and Jonathan Marshall did. Their Marshall Fund brings smart book authors and well-versed poets to town on a regular basis. And twice a year, the butterflies come, too. The […]
