Hypocritically adding to the problem

I liked Michael Jackson’s music as much as the next middling fan, but really now, enough is enough. I’m not even watching the memorial service, but it’s still getting at me via osmosis. The sighs and sniffs around me are telling the story of an insane, overwrought spectacle. Truth be told, I’ll probably take a [...]

why i wish i had my kids’ doctor

I’ve been waiting a week now, to get on top of the strep throat I knew I had when I walked into the doctor’s office last Saturday. The diagnosis was given only after the long-form, old-school lab test that the doctor finally consented to send to the lab after my insisting I must have strep [...]

First homework assignment

Our kids attend a Waldorf school. One of the many things we like about it is that there isn’t any homework assigned until the fourth grade. However, third grade does have one big project as part of the curriculum: the kids have to chose, design and build a model shelter, then make a presentation to [...]

an abundance of pleasures

No matter how you try to spread ‘em around, events insist on traveling in packs. Like you pick a day for one great thing and the gravitational pull of its awesomeness drags others to fill in all the days around it. It sounds like I’m complaining, doesn’t it? Which is ridiculous, given that this week [...]

the power of perspiration

Whenever I am feeling completely out of sorts, when the list of things to accomplish far exceeds my ability to complete it, when I feel my life spiraling out of control, I reach for…the scrub brush. A bucket full of hot soapy water, a brush, two rags (one for kneeling on and one for drying), [...]

And today I am 40

My birthday has landed, and I woke up with a cold. How poetic. Forty. I can’t believe it’s here. This is a challenging one—putting me in a very strange place emotionally. Mid-life-crisis-y I suppose. If only I had the money to buy the…what is it that women are supposed to do when they crack? If [...]