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To the Lighthouse

To the Lighthouse

by | Oct 31, 2021 | Books, Family, Home, writing, writing for children

I made it to the lighthouse on a recent family beach visit, decades after I wrote the best chapter of my college honors thesis on Virginia Woolf’s To The Lighthouse. Hello, Lighthouse by Sophie Blackall was more in keeping with the reading list for the trip as...
Delaware on My Mind

Delaware on My Mind

by | Jun 3, 2021 | Family, Outdoors, Travel

Delaware is the First State, which you know if you’ve driven I-95 in those parts, but it might be one of the last states you think to visit though its image has been burnished by the Bidens of late. This old travel piece from 2007 has some delightful Delaware...
Culinary Cred

Culinary Cred

by | Apr 3, 2014 | current non-events, Family, food, Holidays, Humor

I’m not sure if I will rate more or less of that once this gets posted. In my refrigerator when I first wrote this were way too many house made Sour Watermelon  Gummy Bears. I had very little to do with the making of them and even less to do with the eating...
Got my Number

Got my Number

by | Feb 19, 2014 | city living, current events, Family, Humor

One of the perks of having one’s mother move in with one is to have it confirmed–by the movers at least–that though my birth order makes me the third, in fact, I’m #1. Swear on my mother’s storage unit that this is what came out of the...
Not Her

Not Her

by | Jan 31, 2014 | current events, Family, food, Home, Humor

Having been an operating system for the benefit of others for many years now,  it took me less time than it takes Siri to botch my latest phone call to need a system reset after watching a preview of Her, the new Joaquin Phoenix/Spike Jonze movie about the...