The major news since I last posted is that I got adopted. Yes, it was perhaps a bit odd to do this at my age, but I needed to and it was good for me as well as for my stepfather, who had originally offered to do it in 1984 or thereabouts.
I’m still shy about […]
A very odd home invasion took place at my house yesterday, of the mild variety, where the intruder did not apparently realize she was engaged in something illegal, and in fact did not even seem to realize she had entered the wrong home.
I had stepped away from the house for ten or 15 minutes to […]
I went outside to weed and water in my front yard this morning, intending only to do it for a few minutes. I knew the plants were thirsty and had been for days. There was no particular sense to it, except just some visceral connection I fancy I establish with plants I watch. I start […]
At some point, while I was immersed in crash courses on parenting in the initial midst of having three babies born back-to-back, I remember sage advice from a class I once took at a parenting resource center in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. The class was always about parenting in general but the particular focus that day […]
When I was about the age my kids are now, my family had been undergoing upheaval for a few years. We uprooted in early 1975 from our Phoenix home, where I’d been since birth, and transplanted to Pittsburgh, in relation to my father’s work for the aluminum-fabrication company Alcoa. We were just getting semi-adjusted to […]
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Our favorite sensitive one, PAOLO BRANDON is currently having a temper tantrum on the couch. After coming home in a chipper mood and with a crisp to-do list after school, Paolo did his 30 minutes of reading and then dove into his math work. But only a few […]
My husband’s been working a lot this summer—working too much, I think, but it’s the kind of deadline-driven work that becomes difficult to measure after a while. You just work and work and work and there’s this bottomless pit of endless work facing you, and everything’s behind schedule, and no amount of goal-reaching offers any […]
After picking up the family tent stakes at the end of June and moving from one city to another not very far away, I left all the corrugated cardboard behind for a lengthy road trip to Ohio, America’s Heartland, with my children and mother to visit her parents.
Four generations of the family managed successfully to […]
I have much news to report, but the most current is that I have been beset with a number of poisonous skin rashes of the variety that are exacerbated by the recent heat and humidity. Concurrent with the recent move from one city to another, I’ve also managed to catch back-to-back viruses, like a mild […]
Cuz he’s funny, he’s a Bahá’í, his son’s name is Walter, his wife is Holiday, and he appears to manage to balance his fame with moderation, grace, humility and, of course, humor. What’s not to like?
In a recent interview originally for US Bahá’í News, reprinted with permission from Bahá’í World News Service, Wilson said, “I […]