Although school started two weeks ago, this is the day that life finally resumes in earnest. I am glad that my regular thought-leader, Andrew Sullivan, has returned to his blogging post (the entries of his early-career underlings were boring me). I look forward to thicker magazines and newspapers, with the A-team of writers back on […]
Supervised by the BFF last night, while Big D and I walked down the hill to a newly opened “bistro,” my children made me a birthday cake. Unable to locate candles, they instead came up with idea to place little pictures attached to toothpicks on the cake. The pictures included the following:
1. A […]
If I think about it, a few of them stand out.
When I was eight, there was some sort of picnic celebration on a beautiful evening in the newly emerging planned community of Columbia, Maryland, where my widowed grandmother had recently taken up residence. I also recall a picture from the annual joint father-daughter celebration, probably […]
But I am a little bit thrilled, nonetheless!
My oft-cited favorite blog, Andrew Sullivan, runs a regular contest called “View From Your Window.” Readers submit pictures taken from a window, and, once a week, he invites his other readers to guess the location. This week, I entered for the first time — I had no […]
To celebrate resumption of life as I like it — girls at school, me working until they get home — I attended a forum on economic development in the city of Durham yesterday. This was a bit of self-sponsored continuing education: I wanted to observe how one locality in the United States has managed to […]
School started on Wednesday in the joint Chapel Hill-Carrboro school district. It comes with a new routine and a new cast of characters. I am also looking forward to some new challenges, including finishing a paper with one client and working in Africa with another. For his part, the Big Schlep finds himself making some […]
We have had 1000 wonderful experiences. Isn’t it time for school to start, already?
Last weekend, while driving Evie to camp in West Virginia, our GPS helpfully put us on a six-mile dirt road, ostensibly to save us 10 minutes on the trip. The primitive road spit us out in a place — a retreat, of sorts — that looked very familiar to me, but I could not […]
We have one at our house, too. It makes up, sort of, for the general assignment of the minivan to the man of the house. And perhaps its coolness is diminished when it occasionally transforms into a guest room. But the his-only TV and the red-wine stains on the rug are real. […]
Rome is a World Wonder, one that ought to be seen at least once in a lifetime. But once, for me, is quite enough. (I guess I have actually been there three times, but two of those were essentially in transit). Rome’s antiquities and architecture, and, of course, its food, are quite amazing. I […]