After a fairly warm fall/ early winter, the world is suddenly covered with a thick blanket of snow and very, very cold. It looks very pretty and of course the children are delighted with the festivity of fluffy snow a week before Christmas, but on Wednesday I had an early-morning spot on the news and I […]
I see your Elf on a Shelf, and I raise you a group of snowmen on the bathroom counter
December 18, 2015 by 6 Comments
Snap back to reality
December 14, 2015 by 7 Comments
Oh, you guys, it is SO DARK. It’s still a week away from the shortest day of the year, and the sun rises at 8:32 and sets at 4:28. There has been low-lying cloud and fog, and the other day I went to pick the kids up from school at 3:30 and the streetlights had […]
One of these days these feet are going to walk all over you.
December 2, 2015 by 2 Comments
I found out that Billy Idol just turned sixty this week, and when I mentioned my surprise to my husband, he was nonplussed. “Why wouldn’t you think he’d be sixty?” he asked. “His big hits all came out in the early 80s.” That wasn’t what I meant, though. It wasn’t that I couldn’t believe his […]
An obstacle is an unrecognized opportunity.
September 17, 2015 by 8 Comments
I’ve come a long way throughout the years, and I’ve learned a lot from my mistakes. A person who never made a mistake is a person who never tried anything new was displayed on the wall of Jake’s old classroom, and I think that’s inspirational. I regularly tell my children that mistakes are learning opportunities, […]
Hail the conquering hero!
September 11, 2015 by 4 Comments
There’s just something so satisfying about conquering something that you had previously thought unconquerable. Climbing the mountain, running the marathon, or – in my case – going on a field trip. As you know, over the years I’ve been incredibly adverse to field trips, with the single exception being the preschool trip to the fire […]
Also known as banana hammocks.
August 27, 2015 by 4 Comments
I had so many plans for this last week of summer vacation – the pool! the zoo! the amusement park! – and the weather has been beautifully warm. It would be a perfect week for all those things! Unfortunately, the city is hidden in a giant cloud of smoke, courtesy of the wildfires out west. […]
Zucchini Fest 2015
August 14, 2015 by 2 Comments
Remember in Gone With The Wind, when Scarlett has a recurring dream in which she is running and running through mist and fog, looking for something, something that will make her happy? And then she finds herself actually running through mist and fog and she realizes – finally – that the key to her happiness has […]
