So, I may have inadvertently kidnapped the neighbor boy.
Let me explain
As with most things in my life, there is a story here and with almost anything pertaining to me the plea of “OK, so let me explain” will figure prominently.
The neighbor boy has been spending the night a few nights a week and […]
One of my many faults (and I surely have far too many to count in just one column) is I am a shallow person who takes comfort in the problems of others.
OK, not “comfort” exactly, but a certain sense of camaraderie, definitely.
It’s not that I wish harm — or hardship — on others. […]
Yesterday an old friend from high school, back in touch via one of the many online “social networking sites” that allow you to log in and instantly reconnect with the boy who lobbed spit wads at you in second grade, or the gal who sat behind you in 10th grade science, sent me a one-line […]
Well, as usual, Mr. Wonderful has just gone ahead and absolutely ruined my life. He does that. It’s his thing.
How, you ask? How does this saint of general all around nice-guyness, awesome neck rubs and the ability to just forget all about the time I backed into a wall manage to ruin my life? […]
You never think it will happen to you. I paused. I gulped. I looked around, and then down, into the earnest, twinkle-eyed face of my darling 9-year-old daughter as she uttered those words that strike fear into a parental heart:
“Mommy, is Santa Claus real?”
This is like “that talk” you know you are going to […]
What does one give the 9-year-old who has everything?
My children — and most of their friends — are the luckiest children in America. Toys and books pack the corners of their home. Camps and chorus and lessons and DVDs and electronics of all shapes and sizes fill their days.
As a result, I cannot […]
It’s not easy being perfect.
Just ask my daughter’s soccer team — those kids are on fire! They played an entire outdoor season from late summer to early fall and never lost a game. Not ever. Not once.
Flush with their success, they went ahead and continued an indoor soccer session with the same stunning success. […]
Endless ads saying “home for sale” are blatantly false advertising. What is for sale is a “house” — sticks and stones and other solid things. Only the people inside it can make a “home”.
I have always prided myself on being the smart, savvy sort. The type that no one can “put one over on.” The type to be on top of all the “little things” in my midst.
Imagine my surprise, then, to discover that Mr. Wonderful, with the endless cooperation of a myriad of my family and […]
Proving yet again even my dog is more forward thinking than I, the stick has recently been inducted into the Toy Hall of Fame.
The lowly stick, a universal plaything powered by a child’s imagination, landed in the National Toy Hall of Fame on Thursday along with the Baby Doll and the skateboard…Curators said the […]
