Last night I took the girls to a Bat Mitzvah. Not our typically Friday night activity, but this was no typical kid getting Bat Mitzvahed. So I rushed home from work and asked Courtney the Wonder Sitter to help me hustle the girls into appropriate clothes and we were all crammed in the bathroom and […]
Not to be melodramatic or anything, but today something happened that completely shook my faith in everything I’ve come to believe about Sophie in the last 7 years, 10 months and two days — something that slammed me hard, right back into that bed in that hospital where she was born. Where the doctor told […]
Remember when you were a kid and you had a friend over and you begged your mom for an overnight? Then more play the next day? And then for the friend to stay for dinner again? For some reason, those memories for me are always accompanied by the memory of being sunburned — probably because […]
A while back, I was having dinner at a downtown Phoenix restaurant with two of my best girlfriends. Someone who knew someone at the table stopped to say hi. “Hey, what’s with the book club?” he asked, laughing. We looked at each other. It took us a minute — he was making fun of the […]
And in the end, the love you take/ Is equal to the love you make. — The Beatles One morning last week, I woke up before Sophie, who had made her way (as usual) into our bed sometime in the night. Typically, Sophie is a restless sleeper, except for when it’s time to get up. […]
Yesterday a piece I did about Sophie and her BFF (aka “B”) Sarah aired on our local NPR station. I had meant it for Valentine’s Day, but Arizona statehood day happens to fall on February 14, so the BFFs were bumped for a few days. Here they are.
I knew Sophie would not be disappointed to learn she needed glasses. But I was a little surprised when Annabelle asked, plaintively, “Can I have some glasses, too?” She’s not having trouble seeing. She’s just a slave to her own particular brand of fashion — inspired in part, she acknowledged, by Harriet the Spy. Turns […]
Yeah, old chum, I know. The line is really “life is a cabaret.” Not in this house. In this house it’s a carousel. An “Olivia the Pig” carousel, to be exact. And all that spinning made me a little nauseous this weekend. Valentines for 2 dozen kids (times 2) plus 2 science fair projects = […]
We’ve been singing the body electric in our house a lot, these days. They won’t let me embed the video here, but if you’ve never seen the movie Fame — or it’s been a while — and you need a pick me up, please take a minute and watch this. See? Don’t you feel awesome? […]
