The lovely thing about vacationing without the children – who I dearly miss! – is how leisurely the morning coffee hour becomes. Santa Fe’s elevation means that the nights have just a tiny touch of chill, and so each morning we wrap up in robes and sit on the balcony to sip steaming coffee and…
Category: Everyday Adventures
Santa Fe
On Wednesday night, the Professor and I enjoy tacos and margaritas at a cantina in a back alley of Montgomery. Heading back to the room, we pass a half dozen people I recognize from the exam – there are at least twenty empties on their table, and they are chatting and laughing on the patio…
From Agony to Ecstacy
Forty eight hours ago, nearly to the minute, I put down my number two pencil and closed my test booklet. From somewhere in the back of the room came a Whoop and a scream, and with a scattering of halfhearted applause, several hundred exhausted people staggered out of the chilly, concrete-floor hotel ballroom that had…
Bar? What Bar?
I promise I’m studying for the bar. I’m about to kick it into high gear. I’m solid on the “act like a lawyer” part – where they give you fake law, fake facts, and ask you to do lawyerly things with them – like write a brief or a motion. I’ve done about four of…
Jack and Liam’s Summertime Extravaganza – a Pictorial Representation of Why I Wish I was Four Again
Although much of my summer has a certain Groundhog Day feature to it – bar study remains relentless and mostly boring – my SONS are not suffering for that fact. If you wanted to write a manual for “how to create the ideal summer experience for your preschool-aged children,” then look no further than Jack…