Wendy's Excellent Adventure

When we were in New Hampshire this past weekend, I was on driving duty. We had a bitchin' Chrysler minivan because the rental car compan...

The philosophy of Colfax Avenue When the COVID craziness started over a year ago, it felt weird and somewhat scary and a little bit like an ...

 An article in today's New York Times talked about how the pandemic has made mothers feel like failures. We lose our tempers and yell. ...

 My fingers have gotten sloppy at typing on my phone. I used to be much better at it, but lately I'm constantly missing letters or hitti...

The turnoff from the Halfmoon trail to Mt. Massive is written in tiny letters with a Sharpie. This cracked me up. I suppose it was inevitabl...

 The adolescence is becoming conspicuous.  I look at my children and they do not look like little kids anymore. Josie, who will be 11 in thr...

  5:00 a.m. - I am up before my alarm, which is unusual and surprising. I like my sleep, plus I was up last night later than normal. Met a ...

"Mom, me and Zeke are switching rooms." I had just walked home from being out for a couple of hours to meet a friend for a drink...

My dear Emma, Happy birthday. You would have been twenty-three years old today. I've been thinking about you so much lately. I...

If there is a casualty of this COVID-stay-at-home-so-you-don't-die dealio, it will be my sense of time. Lisa wrote about this, and I ge...

Because I do my assignments, I was determined to know the speech, off-book. I practiced in front of Josie and Zeke, both of whom applauded...

It takes a lot to accept that a fundamental decision in your life was a bad one. It's hard to admit it, that your judgment was so off. ...

I've been thinking for a while about what I'm going to do with this blog. I've been writing it for 13 1/2 years. It's been a...

My wonderful, colorful, hilarious, delightful Josephine, Today you are 10 years old. I'm excited to be writing this birthday post for ...

It has been five years . Five years is a milestone. It feels like a significant amount of time, when memory of an event, or a person, s...