I open the side door of our house and a waft of good smells greets me -- the yeasty goodness of fresh baked bread, Sunday-dinner richness of balsamic baked chicken, exotic tang of Croatian sausages, sweet goodness of blueberry tarts. Molly B is in the house and, like Beauty and the Beast's Be Our Guest, [...]
Editor's note: This post is a little sadder than I usually write, so if you don't want to read it today I'll understand. If you do read it, though, I'd love to hear your thoughts.... I spent last weekend at the University of Wisconsin surrounded by thousands of examples of human brains at their finest [...]
My daughter Molly has been setting her own pace since she took her first steps (to her Great-Grandpa Fey in the visiting room of his nursing home). A Thoreau-ly confident English major, she occasionally keeps pace with her companions, sometimes trails them and, every now and then, she zooms ahead. She likes to step to [...]
Dear Nurse, Thank you for wrapping my babies snugly in warm blankets and presenting them to me like sweet-smelling gifts. Thank you for coaching me through the labor that brought them into this world. Thank you for answering a million questions and chuckling gamely at nerve-inspired jokes I'm sure you'd heard a thousand times before. [...]
Oh, I’d heard about Bunco before, even subbed in a group once. But last week marked the first time I had ever shaken the dice as an honest-to-goodness member of a bunco group. “What’s next, Mahjong?” asked my son Charlie-the-New-Yorker when I told him how excited I was to play the game. “I feel like [...]
