Tag: Raising Our Daughters
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Giraffes & Joy
Could you use a dose of joy today? Sometimes it can be hard to find. A few weeks ago, we found a big dose of joy by hanging out with some giraffes! This is how and why that happened. We recognize that it was a great privilege to take this trip. I hope it encourages…
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#CedarPoint #HalloWeekends
Cedar Point is America’s Roller Coast. Dorky, but true! For each of the past 22 years, I’ve spent an August day there with approximately 40,000 of my fellow citizens. Since my in-laws live in Sandusky, Ohio, Cedar Point is part of the magic of our Annual Family Reunion. This year I was lucky enough to…
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Fruitful Conversation
The girl was talking very fast, very urgently, and the mom was listening intently. . .
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Emerson Commencement Address by David Gregory
Our daughter graduated from Emerson College in Boston on Monday, May 14, 2012. The ceremony was held in the Broadway-style Wang Theater and the reception afterward was in tents on the Boston Common under cloudy skies. The graduation speaker was David Gregory, moderator of Meet the Press. He did a fine job, opening with lighthearted…
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Improvising in the Kitchen
My family teases me that I am unable to follow a recipe exactly. To me, a recipe is a suggestion, kind of like driving directions. Actually, I follow Googlemap directions much more closely than I follow recipes! Before I begin cooking I like to remind myself of the rules of improvisation: Say Yes Don’t Prepare…
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A Snapping Turtle in Suburbia!
Today was the first very very warm spring day, so warm you realize that spring wll be over soon. As my husband and I were returning from the gym this evening, we noticed a lot of people standing in the middle of our street, around a large black lump that looked like somebody’s overcoat. “Turtle!”…
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Our 25th Wedding Anniversary: Love is a Work-in-Progress
Vacation: began with the spontaneous decision to take in a Broadway production of MARY POPPINS (marquee noticed at 7:16, show began at 7:30) continued with a pilgrimage to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, where love is in the air (and reverberates blissfully in the ear drums) then spanned two family reunions, His (Lake…
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Ruminations on Parenting which never ends
The last couple of weeks have been all about our daughters. ?I mention this in case you happen to be the parent of younger children and believe that in the future your life will be “yours” again. ?I can’t say that such a thing never happens, of course. I am not dead yet, so parenting…
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The Light Is Honeyed
A pantoum is a form poem where the second and fourth lines of each stanza become the first and third lines of the next stanza, creating an interlock that puzzles me. ?I wrote this on the eve of my 51st birthday, remembering Thanksgiving Day when we took a family nap. The light is honeyed, sparked…