Do you remember when you first went away without your children? And it seemed as if every single person you met was accompanied by their cute, delightful daughter, punctuating the longing you felt for your own child.
Likewise, when it’s time to call...
Now don’t get me wrong, my life inspires profound gratitude — between work, my loves and the people and places that astonish me daily — I treasure all its glorious, messy details.
For Thanksgiving, however, I thought I’d send a few notes to several...
It’s time for Book Fair!
Do you recall the Scholastic flyers that came home in our backpacks as kids? Circling your choices, Christmas coming every six weeks or so — remember this was in the era before a mega bookstore was on every corner. Then there...
Yesterday I took my youngest to basketball practice. Due to a fortuitous “who-has-the-keys-to-the-gym” kerfuffle, we ended up at an outside court, playing in the warm Indian summer afternoon.
During the 5-on-5, my baby caught a pass, spun and dropped...
In the 11th hour of the 11th day during the 11th month — the guns fell silent and war ended forever……
Don’t you wish that had happened — that subsequent generations would never know the pain, the throb and the overwhelming divisiveness of war.
With...
