One of my kids is getting pretty good on his skateboard. Here he is making his way to the neighbors’ house for a cookout last weekend. This video bit doesn’t really show off his mad skillz, but you can get a sense of his confidence. When we toured a bike path near Worcester the following […]
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 […]
Several things have been going on around here that have, for one reason or another, prevented me from feeling as though I can write (which I sorely feel I need to be able to do) or even take a few steps back on occasion and simply ponder. Among those things is the fact that we’ve […]
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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 […]
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 […]
Relieving some of the stress referenced here in recent months, things are falling into place that will enable my family and me to relocate from one city to another just 30 minutes south: Hartford, Connecticut. For a while, the uncertainty about the move was driving me to a certain level of personal chaos, because my […]
Lately in the line of my work, which I am not sure I can technically call work, I have been going into vacant buildings and taking pictures. This series, which I’m still preparing to publish on my city blog, shows the interior of a grand old mansion on a prominent city street. In the 19th […]
I have spent the past week doing my own private equivalent of a marathon, insisting that I work as hard as possible in spite of being sick, while carrying with me a knot of tension on my back and shoulders about as thick and cumbersome as a mature oak tree. When this happens, sometimes I […]
My strategic silence here for some weeks was, if not carefully planned, somewhat necessary while I drew inward and made some assessments in the quiet moments I had. Lately I have been pondering the benefits of staying in one place, versus moving away, towards new goals. Which is the harder thing to do?
Sometimes lingering too […]