Even if you have a nagging dry cough that keeps you up at night, it’s not a good idea to take Nyquil during exam week. In other news, I’m sitting here at the table in the reading room feeling slightly drunk, trying to make the words stop swimming on the page, even though I had…
Category: Everyday Adventures
Glorious
At first the wind was cold. But later I was happy for it. A front had swept through the night before, rattling the screen door, making it hard for me to sleep. When the alarm went at 5:15, I had been awake for nearly two hours already, blinking into the darkness, listening to the dog…
Super!
The husband and I got to watch a football game (not the Saints) in the Superdome this week – from the sidelines! It was pretty cool. We went back in the locker room to hear the coaches berate the guys before the game and during halftime. During the game, we got to mingle down on…
My Sons’ Hometown
Take a United States map. Place your index finger at the tip of Florida, and then, moving northerly and to the west, trace the Gulf-side border of the state. You’ll trail your pointer finger along a series of coastal cities: Naples, Cape Coral, Sarasota (a place to which I once seriously considered moving, before settling…
Idyll Interrupted
On July 15, the day after that last post, I took the boys on another amazing bike ride. We waved at train conductors, truck drivers, and shipmates, and I marveled at how cool it is to live in a port city. We rode for a very long time, passing dozens of cyclists, as it was…