I will miss the rain when I’ve passed on… When I’ve died, gone to the other side, whatever happens when I’m no longer living in my body, I will miss the rain. I’m not sure when I started thinking this way. At some point I began realizing that I would not be here forever…
If this were a serious blog, if I really meant business, I’d write an enlightening perspective on the healthcare reform. If I were chic or fashionable, I’d discuss something pithy like a new interior design trend or the latest in summer footwear. Crafty Moms, Super Moms, Working Moms, they write posts about clever shortcuts or…
Is it possible to be the CEO of Paypal and that’s just not enough? You’d still need to pad and pump yourself up bigger than you already are? I guess so. The CEO of Yahoo was recently fired for stating he had an accounting degree and a computer science degree when, in fact, he only…
Milestones are weird. The culmination of years, tiny steps and near misses, all come together in one day. A ceremony celebrating a right of passage or an achievement. Katlyn graduated from Xavier College Prep today. Four years of homework and tests, crazy schedules and days when she just didn’t want to get out of bed.…
I like old keys. I always have. I also have a fascination with hotel silverware, but that’s a different post. There’s the obvious symbolism of a key. It represents the entree into something precious, locked away, private. Writers have used phrases like “the key to my heart”, “key to life”, or “keys to the past”…
One of the great challenges while raising children is helping them become adults without making mini versions of ourselves. I don’t want my children to be like me. I want them to learn from me and hopefully they’ve listened to some of my less than brief ramblings, but what I want most for them, aside…
I’m new to sports. Never had much of an interest in watching or participating. I mean I played tennis, but that was really only because it looked good on a college application. I grew up believing that the arts were underfunded and sports was rampant with overpaid, glorified neanderthals. One of the wonderful things about…
You know those scenes in some movies where they speed everything up and the sun rises and sets and the cars race by and the people look like little ants? The ones where they’re showing the passage of time? Sometimes I feel like I’m in one of those scenes. I try to slow it down…
Michael has a garden. Tomatoes, peppers and this season…strawberries. Four different kinds. He has vines planted on one wall of the side yard that has become his “space” and we just bought a great table for potted plants and tools. It’s starting to come together. Maggie is highly invested in the garden and has been…