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Classical Dim Sum
"The real world is cooperative, not competitive." says Lily. Lily offers cooking, sewing, and piano lessons. Her musings on how the world works are for free.Meet Lily. A pint sized, energetic, über...
View ArticleSunday
We got an invitation to go to a christening. I love babies. I love lunch and I love cake. Off went the email saying we were going. I asked what kind of gift card the baby preferred. The baby suggested...
View ArticleTwenty minutes
I found out what kind of mother I am today. I am the kind of mother that will drive for exactly twenty minutes wondering if a spider is in her pants biting her. Not 19 minutes. Not twenty-one. I will...
View ArticleIt's Just Temporary
It all feels temporary. Everything. The weather. Your friends. Your car. Your home. The body you inhabit. Size six today. Ten tomorrow. All temporary. Some things are a longer kind of temporary- a...
View ArticleNever Ready
I saw the note on Facebook. She'd lost her dad which meant he'd lost his dad. Then a few months later, they lost their mom. I loved him once- a long time ago. I was swallowed up in his family for a...
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The True Cost of a Dog
"How much did Fisher cost?" one of my kids asks. $350? $400? $575? That all depends, I think. Fisher cost us $350. He was neutered, vetted, and transported. But that was a drop in the bucket in...
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Family on the Fly
If I fold the third row of seats down (which was a complete waste of money as an option because no one will sit there anyway) an extra-large dog bed can fit in the back of my car. And if I curl up...
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"We're moving to Sweden?"
How do you tell your children you're moving (possibly far, far away)? I'm not sure I have the right answer but I definitely have the wrong answer. Don't let a stranger tell them at a party. I know...
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We Were Fourteen
With less than a month left of school, summer is just around the corner. Last summer, my fourteen-year-old daughter was invited to join a friend in Florida for a week. I really had a hard time...
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Five Reasons I Love You
Washington, D.C., May 20, 2017 I sat on the steps of the Carnegie Institution for Science with a drink called "Bee's Knees" (alright, it was my second but it had been a really long day and they were so...
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Garden Rain
A 4:15 text and suddenly, I am all kinds of motivated on a Sunday afternoon. I've been thinking about this tag sale for months. I'd already counted all the holes in a perennial garden and figured I...
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It Just Wasn't in the Plan
I heard from a friend I hadn't spoken to in awhile. She mentioned she divorced last week. I threw out some flip comments. What is there really to say she hasn't already heard or thought herself but...
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{the} Lost Kitchen: An Adventure for the Soul
I'd never heard of a supper club until I spent a few years living in Switzerland. I stumbled across an article about Jim Haynes and his supper club in Paris. For thirty years, he's been taking first...
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The Cost of College
"I thought I did everything right. I insisted on academic rigor. I insisted she join a sport, volunteer, and then drove her back and forth to a part-time job. I went to parent/teacher conferences,...
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When She Was Mine
Remember holding your brand new baby and being mesmerized? This baby was yours. Yours to take home. Yours to keep. You knew everything about this baby- every dimple, every roll, you knew what each...
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Senior Pictures
"This is the last time I am going to ask. When is your appointment for senior pictures and what are you going to wear?" I got the date out of him but not what he was going to wear. Days go by. Two...
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A Million Stars
Photo credit: The Night Sky Observer The Sagittarius teapot was bright in the sky. A few more degrees to the right and it would appear to tip enough to shower the earth below. The Milky Way, its...
View ArticleTeenagers and One-Way Streets
I parked in front of the oral surgeon's office. I gathered my things and got out of the car. I got all the way to the office door before realizing my son wasn't trailing behind me. He was still...
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Ginnie
Every once in awhile I hear her catch her breath. Not a whimper- just a sudden small sigh. She doesn’t move. Her hospital bed faces the window which looks out to the woods behind her home. Someone...
View ArticleShow and Tell
Today was “Show and Tell” at work. I work in a private school. We get to do things like this. It was our very first back-to-work activity before kids arrive next week.I was somewhere in the middle of...
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Loving Lo
It was move-in day at college. She was in and we were both exhausted. It was 102 degrees but we did it. I swear it was 83 degrees there at 4 a.m.I swiped my $8.00 parking ticket off my windshield,...
View ArticleThe Importance of JLo. Yup. I just said that.
I loved her costume. I loved Shakira’s costume. I didn’t find them offensive nor did I feel like "the kids should leave the room.” If my kids were in the same room, I would have pointed at JLo and...
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Taming Coco
The Coco Saga continues. Three private lessons were not enough to teach her some manners. It was off to Saturday school with all the other dogs that needed to amend their rude ways.We were last to...
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Thad
When you’re asked by a friend, “Would you like a copy of his obituary?”And you think, “Maybe. Do I?”Where will I put it? Next to Dan’s? In the ‘Dead Brother’ file which until now only held one? Who...
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#WilliKid
There was only ten minutes in between the junior varsity and the varsity game. Ten minutes to explain how the scoreboard which was dedicated to my brother came to be. Ten minutes to leave people with...
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