Yesterday morning I lay on my sweaty back, watched the neighborhood geese V up for their annual training flights and fought back my annual panic at the fleeting nature of life.Summer lasts a moment around here and there's still a lot to pack in. That sand-in-your-toes feel, sticky ice cream taste, campfire smell, lapping water [...]
Tag: Life
We celebrated life’s small achievements with giant burgers
Last night we celebrated small achievements -- a smooth highway merge by a rookie driver, a successful purchase of the confounding maxi skirt, the unexpected pleasure of a true family dinner -- with giant burgers, and we ended our day on a delicious note. Sometimes in the chaos of our busy lives, it's nice to [...]
On being 50
By tomorrow I will have lived a half a century. It's not the number of years that bothers me, it's the speed at which I racked them up. Somehow, in the happy chaos of scrambled dinners, scattered socks, fun runs, permission slips, committee meetings, and looming deadlines, I must have looked away for a moment. [...]
10 reasons we don’t need 10 tips for how we should behave on Facebook
Recently, a slew of self-described social media experts have cluttered up the information highway with all sorts of dire etiquette warnings and self-righteous suggestions for how we should behave on Facebook. Here's why we don't need them (and neither do you): 1) We like your pictures. We really do. We don't click "like" indiscriminately (though [...]
Molly, Me and the DMV
Molly and I sashayed into the DMV yesterday blindly confident in our ability to get her a learner's permit. After all, we'd been down that white-knuckled, watch-your-intervals, release-the-pedal-slowly road three times before. From her rising back seat vantage point, Molly watched as two older brothers and an older sister learned to drive, while I sat [...]