I think my face might have been a little sunburned from my delightfully warm walk along the river, because it really hurt when the wind whipped icy pellets at it the next morning as I scraped a thick frost off my windshield. "Come on, Wisconsin!" I yelled. "You're better than this!" From T-shirts on Tuesday [...]
My Christmas elves have been making their way home this week and turning our wise, old house into their workshop. Lucky us! Our youngest daughter Molly was the first to arrive and she set right to work. "I'm going to fix some things around here," she announced. "I want to be handy." She asked if [...]
I missed National Daughters Day for the best of all reasons, because I was too busy hanging out with one of my own. Katherine flew in from LA and I got to spend a whole, glorious, busy, fun, hilarious, extended weekend with her. What a gift! She kept me on task with her reflexive organization, [...]
We looked undermanned and overmatched as we lined up against our opponents on that bright spring day at Meadowland Park. In what some pundits describe as a preview to the 2023 U.S. Kubb Championship, we outlasted our opponents (who were also our hosts) to win the day. What we lacked in skill, we made up [...]
Back in the earlier innings of my parenting game, we used to call out “family hug” from any room in the house and everyone would come running for a squeeze. Any member could call it, and every member responded (some of those middle schoolers came with their eyes rolling hard. But they came!) That’s what [...]