Short stories and photos shared with humor and love
I’ve spent the last 12 days largely in the company of a three-month old sensei. I mean that in the literal sense. When children ask us where babies come from, we often answer with as much biological precision as we can muster. Sometimes I think we’d be better served if that conversation went the other [...]
I celebrated my birthday on an intermitently rainy Sunday afternoon in New Jersey. One granddaughter eagerly helped me blow out my candles, the other recoiled in horror at the flames those candles generated. Together they represent the yin and yang of birthdays on the far side of the hill. Birthdays here can be sweet celebrations [...]
Our three-year-old is made of pixie dust and spunk. She loves sweet things like cupcakes, ripe apricots and her new baby sister. She spins through her days like a whirling dervish of creativity. She’s an artist — painting, cutting, tracing, gluing, coloring and then… …she’s a teacher — lining up her stuffed turtle, princess doll, [...]
My daughter Katherine has been mothering people since she was old enough to sling her little toddler arm around anyone within her wingspan in need of a little pick-me-up. Strict with her brothers Charlie and Vinnie, and sweet with her baby sister Molly, Katherine has raised us all. So, I was thrilled (embarrassing so) when [...]
My daughter Katherine got married this summer under an old oak tree, a logistical, meteorological and dendrological triumph. I don't know much about trees, but I do know the one Katherine has had her eye on since she was a child is very, very old. I worried it might not live long enough to preside [...]