My birthday tends to fall on Labor Day Weekend every year. (My younger sister’s lands on Memorial Day weekend -together, our birthdays bookend the summer). Back in the old school days, I was always the very youngest in the class. My birthday literally was the cutoff day – if I’d been born a day later,…
From the Mouths of Babes
I cannot even keep up with constant stream of ridiculously funny things that Liam is saying lately. I find all of this so charming – a large part of it is the perky, bee-boppin’ delivery. He strides with confidence through this world, even though sometimes it means he hugs a total stranger or injures himself…
Challenge Complete
I explain to the boys what we are going to do, and Jack says “Ah. So when we dump water on your head, then the sick people will laugh, and the sickness will come out of their mouths and they will be better? Is that it?” When I explain that no, but it will make…
Ice Buckets For Josie, Colette, Quinn, Lachlan, Calhoun, and Michael Brown
The Professor and I enjoyed a bottle of really good Malbec last night. This morning I enjoyed the presence of my children by my bedside at 5:45. One of those terms “enjoyed” is being used sarcastically, by the way. I was challenged yesterday in the ice bucket challenge, and I’m like . . . ….
Robin Fly
I grabbed the Economist out of the mail today and flipped quickly to the obituary, like I usually do, and wondered who would be the subject next week, next month. Who is alive right now who will not be when I next pull the Economist out of the mailbox? Like I usually do. ****************************** Craig…