Goodbye No. 1
Last Saturday was my final farm shift. Wah! Sad day. “Thanks for a being a member,” I said to everyone, all day as they came and went. “Thank you,” they […]
Category Archives: Family
The End of the Innocence
So did you do your homework? Did you read the article? What, you thought I was going to post it and then forget about it, like I do all the […]
The McGuires Take Maine
Two Saturdays ago, we embarked on our great Maine adventure. We flew from Philadelphia to Manchester, New Hampshire, the first flight ever for Sebastian and Gemma, and then rented a […]
Hibernation
I’ve been wanting to write a New Year’s post, one in which I sum up 2015 and lay out ideas for 2016. But I just don’t have it in me. […]
Christmas Reckoning
December 28th, time to sum up Christmas. In literal terms, the sums I spent were comparable to last year. Not as small as they could have been, but not as […]
Smells Like Turkey Spirit
I made my first turkey yesterday. It came out perfect, nice and juicy. The only downside that I can see so far is that the house still smells like turkey, […]
Not Today
I don’t know about you, but I don’t feel like doing s—. today. And by that, I mean I don’t feel like doing any s— for other people. I’ll do […]
Suite Life
Sitting here in our suite at the Seaview Hotel, 11 pm. The kids are finally asleep, spread out among the sofa bed and the queen. We left to come down […]
Notes from Another Deck
Now I’m sitting on a deck located off the back of a log cabin outside of Cooperstown, New York, late Sunday morning. At 4 pm my baby cousin, baby no […]
Notes from a Deck
Sitting on the upper deck of the vacation condo, coffee in hand (lower-fat version). Kids with a babysitter at the condo pool. Husband dispatched to get more change for the […]
