Short stories and photos shared with humor and love
The ice sculptures that lined College Avenue last weekend stood as perfect metaphors for the season they represented -- beautiful, pure, and so very, very fleeting. Unseasonable warmth seeped into the pieces shortly after the artists carved them. It cracked smooth panes and rendered some south facing sculptures quickly unrecognizable. I thought it was a [...]
We kicked off one of our favorite weeks of the year with 27 Elsa-of-varying-age sightings, four kinds of cooked pumpkins seeds, three jack o'lanterns, two giant meals and one pretty peacock. Our love of Halloween, well-documented here on this blog, spans generations and shows no signs of abating. Six days before the actual event, we [...]
A bright, holiday sun lured us out for a Christmas Eve walk and my oldest daughter Katherine and I obediently obliged. Not four blocks into our excursion, we realized our mistake as a biting wind rendered our lips and legs numb and reduced our cheery chat to monosyllabic mutterings. "Brrr," I said. "Yeah," Katherine replied. [...]
I would have turned back when the sleet hit my face on my traditional Easter constitutional but a stiff wind and a stiffer upper lip propelled me forward in an optimistic search for spring. Two hours later I limped home, frozen right hand clutching my Twittering cell phone (#thegroundhoglied), post-brunch yoga pants soggy with snow [...]
But wait! We're not finished with 2012 yet! We're not quite ready to ring in the New Year because we haven't properly capped off the old and 525,600 minutes isn't nearly enough time! We have a few things left on our to-do list and we need to get crackin' Before midnight tonight we'd like to: [...]