RIVALRY? HA. THAT’S teeny, tiny potatoes. My resident little sister and big brother have tabled competition, in favor of all out war. It’s looking like Afghanistan in my house: no end in sight. [click to continue…]
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My Kids: the Rock & the River
FOR WELL OVER a year now, our family’s little sister, aka the Rock, has been telling just about everyone she meets all about her professional ambitions. You’ll never guess. [click to continue…]
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Pleiades and Stardust. Credit: Rogelio Bernal Andreo (Deep Sky Colors)
MY KIDS ARE exploding this spring, turning into ever-evolving, endlessly fascinating, newly reinvented versions of themselves. And though I try to pay attention, it seems that many days, I’m just hanging on for the ride. [click to continue…]
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WHEN I FIRST LEFT LOS ANGELES for the rural slice of paradise where I now live, I had trouble adjusting to lots of things: No dinner delivery. Strangers’ insistence on actual conversations at the Post Office. Repairmen operating on their own, often secret, always elastic, schedules. But my biggest adjustment? Dialing my own speed way, way down. [click to continue…]
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I DON’T KNOW about you, but I am obsessed–OBSESSED–with Glee. If you have any memories of high school at all, good or bad, and you like to sing in the car, the shower or somewhere more public, this show is, dare I say, for you. My enthusiasm for the Glee kids has me singing everywhere (much to the horror of my kids the Rock and the River, who have, at last, decided that I am, in fact, the most embarrassing person on the planet. Especially when I’m singing.) [click to continue…]
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