The weekly Mothers In the Legal Profession Roundup is hosted on a rotating basis at the Butterflyfish, PT Law Mom, Attorney at Large, Attorney Work Product, BJJ, Law, and Living, The Reluctant Grownup j(here), andMagic Cookie blogs. Week of April 15 – 21, 2013 *Allow me to take a brief moment and acknowledge the hideous week we all just lived through – some…
Color
Struck by its whimsy and silliness, and eager to diversify my exercise routine with as many distractions as possible, I decided to sign up last minute for the Color Run. The Color Run is a touring affair, much like the Rock and Roll marathons I think, that takes its buckets of watery “paint” and tinted…
Running Toward
Virginia Tech terrified me. Aurora angered me. But after Newtown broke my spirit, I decided that in order to survive in this uncertain world, and to continue to go to movies, work, school, and out in public, I was going to have to come up with a new way to see things. Fred Rogers is…
One Sentence Story – Son and Sunrise
That morning when he woke us at 5:30 am, instead of sending him back to sleep “until the little hand is on the six,” I swept him up in the soft beige blanket and carried him out to the front porch rocker, where we shared whispers and giggles in the chilly pre-dawn air, watching the sun slowly rise to light the…
Eas-terrific!
We had a lovely Palm and Easter Sunday. Holy Week was a special time for me at our church last year, and I missed being a part of the festivities and celebrations there. But we enjoyed getting to know our new church’s traditions, which included a child’s parade of palms on Palm Sunday. Afterwards, Jack…