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Hey! We chose this one!
On my Sunday long runs I’ve been visiting old territory lately, running through the neighborhoods where we looked at houses during that miserable and hopeful spring four years ago when we first found out we were moving to Denver. I run past crabapple trees in immense sculptural bloom and remember crying myself to sleep after (…) MORE »
Will the Real Me Please Get Lost
My dad hates playing Candyland. Haaates it. It may be the one thing he likes least about being a grandpa–the endless rounds of Princess Frostine, Grandma Nutt, Gumdrop Mountain, the double blue with a bite mark on it, the inevitable tantrum when someone fails to land on the Rainbow Bridge. Naturally, my kids ask to (…) MORE »
Baseball Mom
Lately I’ve been stuck on the horns of a parenting dilemma. Not a big dilemma; not even one that I’m sorry to have. But the kind of thing that makes me wonder if we’re going to look back in fifteen years and go what were we thinking. That kind of dilemma. Specifically: kid activities, and (…) MORE »
Of baklava baking, swimming and other things we teach our kids
This week I’ve been thinking about learning, and learning styles, and subject matter, and how as doggedly and lovingly you may lead the horse to the fountain of, say, Spanish, you can’t make it drink. Not even if you promise it 100 carrots for every semester it earns at least a B average in the (…) MORE »
I Will Turn Eight
“It’s like…it like…you decide you want to get better at something, like cleaning your room,” I say. My two kids stare back at me, blinking. Crickets chirp. I’m trying to explain to them the spirit behind one of my favorite annual traditions, the making of New Year’s resolutions. I’m failing miserably. “Won’t you just remind (…) MORE »
Going Erica Jong for the Holidays
This Thanksgiving my family followed our new tradition: rented a condo in Winter Park, Colorado and skied for three days. The digs are rugged, the days are active and outdoors, and the turkey comes in a bag. It’s been glorious, to separate the day from all that cooking and eating and washing up, to break (…) MORE »
