I lucked out on the morning of Christmas Eve and happened to be in the car — by myself — when NPR’s Morning Edition played its annual excerpts from David Sedaris’ “Santaland Diaries.” It was the 20th anniversary of the original broadcast of an essay that ultimately made Sedaris a household name (well, in my […]
Last month, a local chef came over to make cookies. I knew what she’d say when she walked in my kitchen. “Oooooh, look at that stove!” The oversized, white enamel Gaffers & Sattler stove came with the house, which was built in 1948. Previous owners remodeled the kitchen in the late Nineties, putting in pink […]
Funny how something as simple as giving can seem so complicated. Do you give the drunk homeless guy on the street some cash, or your leftovers from dinner, or nothing? Stop for the veteran with the tattered sign by the freeway? I have a friend whose kid spent weeks trying to get ahold of the […]
We were on our way to the pediatrician yesterday when Sophie asked the question again. “Why do I have special needs, Mommy? Why do I have Down syndrome?” The appointment was about a rash, not even with our regular doctor, but I figured the fact that we were en route to a medical professional was […]
At the risk of tempting fate (we’ve got two more performances today) Sophie killed it yesterday at Snow Queen. The role of Wood Sprite — the littlest kids in the cast, who scamper around the autumn scene of this Phoenix Nutcracker alternative, making “sharp shapes” and pretending to cause mischief — is a good one […]
