by me | 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...
by me | 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...
by me | 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...
by me | 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...
by me | 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...
by me | Jan 8, 2014 | city living, current non-events, Family, food, Holidays, Humor, Richmond VA, writing
I found the fountain of youth last month, but I’m not interested in partaking of it again. It was at a Catholic church here in town during Advent. Almost as soon as I walked in the door with my 81-year-old mother, I felt transported back to...
