Signup for Our Newsletter
Now that the boys are home again, it’s clear there are certain things I forgot in their absence. Thing number one: NEVER employ the smell…
I thought I had said everything I needed to. I spoke to the boys about Trayvon Martin when he was killed, and we’ve talked about…
Bennett came home from camp one night this week — well, one morning actually. M met his delayed flight at two am. (Flying west during…
Someone in this family who is licensed to drive ran over the milk boxes and it was not me.
I’m sure all boys don’t come home from camp with a few sticks of melted butter (an award, I gather) and nine wasp bites, but…
M says I am a self-hating American because I have generally insisted that the one rule we must follow on July 4th is to leave…
It’s perfectly stunning here. So much so, that we had no choice but to scoop up the girls this morning and head to the pool.…
While the boys are off at camp (more on that, later), M and I spent a few days in NYC. While there, we headed to…
I’ve been feeling somewhat guilty all week because I’ve been reading Facebook posts of friends pining for the children away at summer camp and well….…
When we first moved to town the boys had a preschool teacher who would regularly send home all their creations with a note attached: Parents,…