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, [...]
My daughter Molly goes into the woods as often as she can to forage for delicacies. On some lucky days, I get to tag along. This past weekend she introduced us all to the edible wonder of the Wisconsin Wood Violet. The violets played a starring role in a decadent dessert she made for us [...]
Tina Turner scored a happy weekend for us as we welcomed summer by rolling down the river with our own proud Mary and the gang. We “never do nothing easy though” and that river was cold! But, not as cold as the last time this particular group jumped in so we shook off the temporary [...]
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 [...]