A check, which becomes a little cash. A call to Sunbeam, which becomes an untethering. A Google search for “Cape Cod Bed and Breakfast” — which becomes a send off.
Cute Husband and I grab our fuzzy chicken-legged baby and escape.
We hit the road after 5:00 on a rainy Saturday afternoon. […]
Which one of these is not on my iPod?
Lose yourself, Eminem
Suite for solo cello 1 in G Major, Yo-Yo Ma
You were meant for me, Jewel
Personal Jesus, Depche Mode
Bookends, Simon and Garfunkel
I should have gotten the iPod a long time ago.
I have always loved music. The car radio blasts, and whenever I cook, the small boombox propped in the living room window serenades me. But for the last several years I’ve been reliant on local radio stations. My CD collection is in heavy black […]
Chesley B. “Sulley” Sullenberger is my new hero.
He’s the guy who put United Flight 1549 into the Hudson River. When I was working in the NASA newsroom I learned about was how complex and dangerous shuttle landings are because they are unpowered. You get one pass at the runway, you have to line […]
This year, voters in California passed a state constitutional amendment that says: “Only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California.”
That vote effectively invalidated thousands of marriages that had been sanctified and legally recognized in that state, while prohibiting hundreds of thousands more.
What’s it like to get the kids dressed […]
I pulled the car into the driveway overwhelmed by the leaves and stray yard trimmings. (And stray beach towel, car seat, coffee cup that have been out there for freaking days.)
I had a note from Renny’s teacher. Apparently Ren’s lunch box had contained Baby Callie. And nothing else. “Please send lunch […]
Among my other adventures this summer, I had the privilege of meeting Salvatore Scibona.
Salvatore has just written a novel. And had it published. (Angels singing background music.) The novel tells the story of events in Cleveland, Ohio on August 15, 1953 — covering the day from seven perspectives … and fifty years […]
I can’t help looking at Sarah Palin with total kinship.
I’m not going to vote for her ticket, and I think she’s too young to be president, but oh, how I get her right now.
“Are you coming back?” the Doodle asked me today. Big blue eyes. Round naked belly. Worried little face.
“Mommas always […]
It’s not a problem you hear very much about.
Which is part of the problem.
I’ve been reading coverage of the Joseph Duncan murder trial. He has been convicted of stealing two children, raping and torturing them over the course of a few weeks, and then finally murdering one in front of the other.
I think […]
Aw, so sweet …
… and then this is how you know it is our family:
We went on a walk through the woods. We found a tall purple flower, blooming in a patch of sunlight. The sun coming through the leaves, lighting the bark of the trees, the shimering purple, were breathtaking. I […]
