I often feel that the responses to what I post here on GIAPH are far more eloquent than I can ever be, so in honor of the continuing effort to sift through the emotional rubble by Saturday’s events in Tucson, I decided to post some of the comments made to the post I wrote Sunday: Why Are […]
My feet will never be the same. But it was worth it. I survived four days at Disneyland — including two 12-hour-plus marathons — at a time when the Happiest Place on Earth was also the busiest, and felt like the coldest. Still, I can hardly complain; despite the forecast, it was sunny. We drove away […]
Christmas is over — you have time today. I know you do. Just a bit over five minutes. Watch this. Really. You will thank me. (And Claire, who yet again found an awe-inspiring stop-motion video.)
It’s been more than 30 years, but I can still picture Becky Head’s house at Christmas. Particularly the cookies. Becky’s mom was from Texas — a magical place from which emerged larger-than-life characters with hair that didn’t move and voices far more interesting than those touched with just a faint Phoenix twang. At Christmas, Mrs. […]
Annabelle squeezed out a few tears at bedtime last night. I couldn’t blame her — I wanted to cry, too. Snow Queen was over. This was her third year appearing on a big stage in downtown Phoenix, in the city’s alternative to the Nutcracker. Her second (and almost certainly last) year as a rosebud, which she […]
The transition from Hanukkah to Christmas is a tough one. On the seventh night, Sophie opened her gift — an Olivia the Pig kaleidescope — shook her head and handed it back to me. “This is for Christmas,” she said. And then refused to play with it. True, she did ask Santa for an Olivia […]
I was out for a walk early this morning when an old man in an I Heart Jesus baseball cap tried to hand me some propaganda. From the Things-I’m-Not-Particularly-Proud-Of category, I’ll admit that I wasn’t very nice. “I am SO NOT INTERESTED,” I huffed (and puffed), rushing past him. “Stop bothering people!” I was in […]
The other day, a dear friend observed that my photos on GIAPH have been looking a little funny color-wise lately. I explained that I’ve been playing with an iPhone app called Hipstamatic. It makes your pictures look grainy, off-centered and miscolored, a la old snapshots from the 70s. Why, you ask, would anyone want to screw up […]
