Our morning activity today was another long bike ride. I’ve discovered a long, straight, mostly flat path along the mighty Mississip, and I rode along it for a handful of miles today, towing 65 pounds of boy along with me. 40 pounds of boy – that is, Jack – noticed the “Audubon Zoo” sign as…
Category: Everyday Adventures
Summer Days
We’ve settled into a little rhythm, here. I am supposed to be working, but my professor has yet to respond to my messages and emails, so I’m taking the time for what it is – a break from work, and immersion in my children. It’s fun to dip into their all-day lives, like slipping into…
Sand Smoke Salt
On Saturday, I had a stack of work assignments to catch up on. So naturally, I went to the beach. Alabama: the state with the best beaches you’ve never visited. The sand is fine, powdery white, the water is clear, there are miles of condos and chain restaurants, and also wide swaths of open sand,…
An Echo of Boy
There is a half empty juice box in my hotel room fridge. As I pour a glass of wine for myself in a plastic tumbler, I’m standing eye to “eye” with a Tupperware container full of old, soggy peanut butter crackers. Two little baby washcloths are hung to dry over my shower curtain rod. Earlier…
Wiggin’
Just this second, I’m feeling overwhelmed and out of control. Oddly, it has nothing to do with the job, which continues to click along at a breakneck pace, taking up virtually all of my time. Nope, it’s not the job – it’s my personal life that is wiggin’ me out. I have to begin a…