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We have an ongoing contest in our household to see which one of us can stall more at bedtime.  The other night I was the winner.  My usual online and telephone chat partners had the audacity to be out of town … Continue reading →

I am grateful to my friend at Arlington Kids for playing along when I pitched her the idea of an article about Arlington’s sewage treatment plant.  Really, I just wanted an excuse to go visit it. A Flush of Insight:  … Continue reading →

Amazing but true:  DB does not always cooperate instantly when I ask him to do something.  There are times when this doesn’t matter.  I build extra time into the bath schedule, for example, because I know that we will spend … Continue reading →

What is it with this kid and his milk and bananas?  I must go to the grocery store three times a week for these items.  (Enjoy it while it lasts, say the moms of older boys.  When he’s a teenager, you’ll … Continue reading →

The holiday may be past, but I’m still enjoying the warm fuzzy feeling of a great weekend visiting my Awesome Mom (AM) for Thanksgiving.  She lives some distance away, and the car trip that should in theory take about six … Continue reading →

The writers of the classic 1980s pop songs “Private Eyes” and “Every Breath You Take”* must have a good laugh when they look back on that era’s notion of invasion of privacy.  Not even George Orwell imagined that people would voluntarily … Continue reading →

[Another cross-post from Arlington Kids.  I'm not trying to be a travel writer; just always looking for ways to get DB tired enough to nap on a Saturday.  Sadly, this post is already out of date - it's not warm … Continue reading →

I’m sitting in Starbucks, trying without success to recall all the excellent ideas I had on my way over here for what to write. This is the week I would have been at a writers’ workshop in New York, if … Continue reading →

So what if it’s not a milestone?  In these times when my friends and family and I are occasionally needing to have pieces of our bodies removed for therapeutic purposes, any birthday we reach is a cause for celebration. Today … Continue reading →

“Reinvented. Remodeled. Reborn.” Thus proclaims the cover of the new Restoration Hardware catalog. According to the message from the chairman inside, RH is giving itself a major makeover. My favorite line: “No longer mere ‘retailers’ of home furnishings, we are … Continue reading →