So I’m turning fifty this year. The big day is fast approaching, in fact. I have spent most of my 49th year dreading this birthday. I never thought I’d be one to dread the golden birthday so much. But, alas, it has about eaten my lunch. Until recently. In recent weeks I’ve taken a new approach toward my 50th birthday…. Read More
Yesterday my daughter started her first real, turn-in-a-time-card-and-get-paid job. Fortunately for me she’s working just across the street from our house at an elementary school in the kids’ summer program. Once each afternoon, unless she’s at the swimming pool, the gymnastics center, or some other place where she’s wrangling in kids, I can look out my back window and see… Read More
Once upon a time there was a precocious little girl who loved a good party. As Halloween approached during her fifth year of life, there had been no mention of a good party, however. So this little girl simply took matters into her own hands. She walked up and down the street–because that’s what five-year-olds were able to do in… Read More