Just think- at this very moment, across the world, thousands of vacation photos are being taken that will become the family holiday card — at the beach in white shirts and khakis, arm-in-arm in front of (fill-in-the-blank tourist attraction).
I love these cards. I look forward to them all year. It’s an illness perpetuated...
Today’s New York Times has a fabulous article on Graham Greene in Capri that is reminiscent of Hemingway’s Paris to Pamplona trek in The Sun Also Rises. Check it out before it goes to the archives.
The most inspiring thing about the article to me was Greene’s philosophy on writing: “I have no talent....
Grandpa was the best kind of grandpa. He laughed often, talked constantly and made the best coke floats and paper hats in the universe. He was the superlative of summer.
I was moving a photograph of him and my Grandmother out of an old frame and found this behind it. What...
I found my first gray hair on Saturday, one month after my 30th birthday. It seemed a bit late, actually, like a friend showing up for happy hour just in time for last call. “Where have you been?” I wondered. After all, I’ve been stressed out for years.
I would be a lot...
The Association for Library Service to Children released their award winning books for 2007. Here’s a link to the complete list.
The Caldecott winner, Flotsam, is a little advanced for my daughter, but it is great for 4 and up.There are some wonderful book lists online from libraries that are specifically tailored to age...
Someone at Ten Speed Press, the press that published Dirty Wow Wows and Other Love Stories: A Tribute to the Companions of Childhood, left a comment to this prior Teaworthy post that they are having a contest for Loveys. I entered my Ted and my daughter’s Bu. (They are featured midway down the page.)...
When my parents moved to a hurricane-prone area, I started receiving boxes filled with photographs to preserve in case of a flood. After sorting volumes and years of photos, I am struck by how many vivid memories I have that were never photographed. Most of these have to do with my mom. Like...
Closed captioning, as it turns out, is not only for the hearing impaired. It’s essential for those of us whose homes are acoustically and/or square-footage challenged after the kid(s) are asleep. Why do they mumble so much dialogue on Grey’s Anatomy? Why? WHY? Speak up Derek for Pete’s SAKE! It’s like there are...
The military lexicon was often used in my house growing up; a remnant of my dad’s army days. “At ease,” he would tell the dog barking at the neighbors. Mother’s Day shopping trips were “missions” involving “recon” and herding up all of us to get to church on time involved directives such as, “move out...
