My husband/editor is away this entire week – and also the week before that, but who is counting? I am actually. That means about 87 diapers I have changed and 45 meals I have prepared and five trips to the airport I have made and … OK, getting a little bit off-topic here. The point […]
I am freaking out a little bit. In four weeks my daughter Boo (8) performs in the school musical Aladdin as narrator #5, thank you very much. I am thrilled for her. She is already drunk on the excitement of being on stage and I can imagine she will be over the moon when she […]
Change is inevitable and scary. It is the source of our anxiety and often we have no control over when it happens. The recent tsunami in Japan was a sobering reminder that sometimes everything you know to be real can be gone in an instant. So there’s fast change, and there’s slow, lumbering change. A […]
Today is April 2nd. This year I promised myself I would have all my tax stuff in by April 1st. That has not happened. I have most of it gathered, but I have yet to collect the medical stuff, that stupid IRA stuff (I knew acting like a grown-up would come back to bite me), […]
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