From the day we met her, our son Vinnie's girlfriend Danni has felt like family. A jump-right-in-and-help kind of girl, Danni has floated down a river with us, cheered our various and quirky sports affiliations (Go Croatian soccer!), toasted, chuckled, cleaned, celebrated and consoled. She builds the best camp fires we have ever seen and [...]
Midway through a somewhat miserable day, I scrolled through my Facebook newsfeed and saw this: My heart swelled. Jovie is a sweet little toddler who gets cuter every day. David is her father and Jessica, who posted this, is her mom. Sometimes, we find love in the unlikeliest places. Tuesday, I found it on my [...]
Six years after we launched Molly B and Me with a small garden that only grew turnips and an inventive (though honestly somewhat dubious) recipe for potato cookies, we are moving on. Molly B wants her name back for her own kind of writing and, as her lifelong fan (and mother), the least I can [...]
My daughter would like her name back and I've been trying all summer to give it to her. I chose it carefully in 1998 -- Mary Margaret, after her two grandmothers, nicknamed Molly because her grandmothers happened to have two of the holiest names in the Bible and we wanted our daughter to have some [...]
She spent her final days tethered to the wall, a hostage to her own dwindling battery power. My loyal laptop died slowly, one failing port at a time. I kept her plugged in longer than I should have, which wasn't fair to the old girl. She'd served with dignity, her once-sassy Intel 2 Core Duo [...]