Yesterday, I mentioned to River that our kids have been wreaking havoc on our toilets, and we need a consistent means of keeping the bathrooms clean, non-nasty, smelling at least something like neutral. He fully agreed, acknowledging an awareness of our children’s role in the process of smell and yuck, and said that he would […]
For the last few years I’ve felt like the private investigator of my own life. I’m searching, patiently waiting, looking things up, trying to remember who this person is I’m researching. Who was she before she got married? Who was she before children? Before this move, that relocation, this drastic life-changing moment?
On the radio this […]
My sister Kate has been traveling in southeast Asia with an experienced traveler, Michael, as her guide and companion. Somehow, she has been managing to blog about the experience as she goes.
I have especially been enjoying her accounts of the bathrooms as they progress from plumbed areas of civilization to towns where the common toilet […]
Yesterday, while walking children home from school, while we were learning some choice words in Spanish from our Mexican neighbor friend, Irazu, she asked if she could come over to play. I told her my gut response, which was, “No.”
“Why?” she asked persistently.
“Because… my kids need to come inside… today,” I said, realizing how lame […]