Let It Go
Another Christmas has come and gone. It‘s been a busy few weeks, full of whiteboard scribblings, scrap paper lists and back-of-the-napkin spending calculations, so let’s catch up. The whiteboard Advent calendar […]
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Fall Friday Feeling
It’s Friday the 13th but I’m feeling pretty lucky and in a good mood. Maybe because the Eagles won last night. Maybe because it feels like fall, finally. The house […]
Here We Are Now, Entertain Us
The day after Christmas, my phone screen slowly faded away to black. Broken. I decided I wasn’t in a rush to get a new one. It was break; nothing urgent […]
Every Night Is a Saturday Night
This week is odd. The boys are at a camp at their school from 8 to 3 Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. So we get up early, I make lunches, etc. […]
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 […]
Winter Solstice
Today is the nadir of the year. After today, the sun starts coming back, ever so slowly. Although the sun has been sticking to its script, the weather has not. […]
A More Perfect Christmas
It’s December 27, and since 7:30 a.m. on Christmas morning I have not been doing much beyond building with Legos, acting out scenes from “Frozen,” working on jigsaw puzzles, and […]
