Today Molly turns 17-years old, requiring both an edit to our blog "about us" description and a shift in my thinking. In eight days she will begin her senior year of high school. As she is our youngest, that means all of her lasts will be our lasts too. I prepared to be devastated by [...]
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Are we hashtagging the joy out of Christmas?
I woke up on the Grinchy side of the bed this morning, with a bah humbugged bag full of burnt-out Christmas lights and an alarming tendency to mix my metaphors. The Christmas hashtags are getting me down. In a frantic effort to log as much family time as possible before my beloved troops scattered, I [...]
But, most of all, we love each other
This year, as our home slowly fills with the people I love, and empty glasses collect in random places throughout the house, and the washing machine begins its steady thump, and pots bang on the stove, and earnest chatter fills every quiet room, and strong hands plump extra pillows, and muddy footprints track snow across [...]
18 reasons you’re going to love Pure and Weary
Based in Chicago, Pure and Weary is gearing up for a series of live shows in November. Meanwhile, you can treat yourself to their YouTube Channel. Here's why you'll be glad you did: Scripted comedy is a national treasure and we should support it as such. They're both middle children and could use some attention. [...]
A crash course in priorities, hubris, and that fickle fiend, technology
My laptop crashed last night, just after I’d uploaded the weekend’s photos. I fought with it a while, with just enough expertise to recognize futility and just enough inanity to hope my repeated pounding on an offending key might somehow revive the thing. Panic set in quickly as I realized I had not backed up [...]