Ugh, I am all over the place today, even though I’ve scarcely left my chair. From e-mail (three accounts) to Facebook (four pages) to Internet (at least five pages open at all times) to a dozen or so Word files — back and forth, over and over and over, til bits of work are finally […]
To be honest, when I set out on my question-asking mission this week, I only had three. But I knew a fourth would come to me and sure enough, it did. “Let’s see if you can both be dressed by the time I get out of the shower,” I called to the girls this morning, […]
OK, so today’s question is about Annabelle. Last week I asked her fourth grade teacher what I thought was an innocent question: Is Annabelle in the lowest math group? Turns out, that’s a big no-no. How did I get this far without realizing it? I guess it’s because the question I’ve always wanted to ask […]
Yesterday was not Sophie’s best day. It wasn’t mine, either (I won’t bore you with details) but I looked pretty good by comparison. “It was not a good day,” Courtney told me when we met in the parking lot before piano lessons. “No one said anything to me, but I overheard something about a fight […]
Watching my mother instruct Annabelle to blow a party horn at our family dinner last night — in lieu of Rosh Hashana’s shofar – I was reminded yet again that I really have to get on that whole Jewish education thing. But before that (and apologies, Higher Being, if you do in fact exist) there are […]
Ray was up long before the crack of dawn this morning. Only a few things can inspire such rash behavior on the part of my husband. One of them is dove hunting, which begins in these parts every year on September 1. I can’t stand this. Not because I’m overly fond of birds (they creep […]
Even if you don’t live in Arizona, chances are you’ve heard about (or — cringe — seen) our governor’s performance in the first (and last, if her campaign has anything to do about it) gubernatorial debate earlier this week. Ray and Annabelle got busy with the iPhone last night, and look what landed in my […]
