Last Thursday when my little guy and I came home, I found a dog blanket on our side deck. It had poop on it. Sigh. I went inside to find the note from the dog walker that Oli’d had an accident in her…
I’m unclear on how it is in other cities, but even in bike-friendly Berkeley the majority of adult cyclists are jerks. They ignore stop signs, whip by you when you’re trying to turn, and seemingly go out of their way to intensify the…
Today I realized that couples rely upon shared engagement, as well as concurrent disengagement. By that I mean that couples eat together and discuss together – shared engagement – but they also enjoy escaping together: watching a play or a movie, trivia night at the local pub, running…
It is graduation season, when Dr. Seuss’s classic, “Oh, the Places You’ll Go!” is sold out on Amazon. When we received our own copies years ago, we were simultaneously elated and terrified. With an unwarranted sense of preparedness, we set forth on our lives’ journeys.…
Regional dialects and colloquialisms simultaneously distinguish and aggregate us. I’ve lived in CA for 21 years and mostly fit right in, but occasionally something I say will reveal my Hoosier roots to a native Californian or will bond me together with another Hoosier.…
What a day I had. It started of just grand. I woke up mostly painless, and I was not going in to work, because today I would pick up Eliot and his friend at noon – the last day of school. Both kids knew we…
My 4 year old is growing more comfortable with is alphabet: he can not only recite his ABCs, but he’s recognizing letters and recalling the sounds associated with them. We’ve been reading the same book every night for a couple of weeks (in…
All of us have lived through tragic or tragically absurd events. When I was younger, I think I was much better at crafting these into ludicrous stories to be shared at dinner parties for the amusement of others. I could make people laugh.…