I have been listening to The Highwomen's Grammy winning song "Crowded Table" on repeat all week. It could be my theme song anytime, but particularly now that my whole family is home. MY WHOLE FAMILY IS HOME! I love a crowded table full of good food, clanging plates and silverware, animated conversation and all the [...]
I gave my son a T-shirt for his birthday because I thought it was cute. He's a 34-year old man who lives and works in New York City so you'd think his options for wearing cute T-shirts might be somewhat limited. But, I don't care. I just wanted him to know I thought he was [...]
My son Charlie started his birthday at 4:45 yesterday morning by taking a nice stroll with his wife Tara from their apartment in Queens to the M train, which she takes on days she works in the city. Then he hit his neighborhood gym for a morning workout, picked up a cold brew and some [...]
“I’m so excited for you to meet my trees,” my daughter Molly said as she greeted me in the front yard of her new apartment. We had come to Minneapolis to help her move, but she had already taken care of, well, everything, except the assembly of a new bed and she did most of [...]
You have to be agile to celebrate the Fourth of July in Northern Wisconsin, able to dodge water balloons and flying cheese sticks and willing to scramble out of the way when children dive for all the candy and beachballs tossed their way. We know this because we were lucky enough to attend two Fourth [...]