“I have something for you,” my dear friend Kim Porter messaged me on Facebook the other night. The next morning, I was holding a tiny brown paper bag. I gasped when I pulled out the contents: a pendant hanging on a ball chain, fashioned out of an old silver spoon, featuring a bronze cutout of […]

This weekend Annabelle began designing her “spring collection” of fashions, and also made some lovely sculptures by gluing plastic beads together. But my favorite AB creation of late is one I found last week in her “important papers” folder in her backpack. I don’t know if she wrote it for a school assignment or just […]

I begged Ray to watch Sophie on Friday night. “Oh come on,” he said. “She’ll LOVE the piano concert. You can watch both of them, no problem.” Annoyingly, Ray is almost always right, so why was I surprised when, in fact, Sophie did love the piano concert? The both part — that’s where he was […]