By Danny Thomas Today, I have somewhat of a rant … or maybe a concern… concern is a better word. here is the source of my consternation: I have three daughters… every single one of them laughs at farts (so does their mother, but don’t tell her I told you) and plays in the […]
by Tanya Ward Goodman There is nothing I can do about the bombs falling in Gaza, nothing I can do about the spread of Ebola. I can save my bathwater and stop watering my lawn, but the California drought is largely out of my own two hands. I can (and do) pray for peace […]
by Tanya Ward Goodman I ran in the Jog-a-Thon at my son’s school this morning for a bunch of reasons. I ran because this is the first year in a while that I’ve had two kids at two different schools and the boy’s school is getting the short end of the volunteer stick. I ran […]
oh you know… it’s like this… here is the path i took to sitting down to write this blog i put the toddler in her bed moved the kindergartener from our bed to hers checked on the suffering of the insufferable 8 year old and flopped down next to my wife… who was more […]
by Tanya Ward Goodman I was in third grade and it was Halloween. A bunch of people had gathered at our house to eat and drink before heading out to trick-or-treat. My mother was dressed as a gypsy fortune-teller. She swirled around the house in satin skirts and a patchwork vest, dispensing red wine out […]
By Danny Thomas its time to write part of the reason that I have not written recently is that I have been trying to figure out how to make up for lost time how to catch the blog up well it aint gonna happen here’s the thing between the new life of working full time […]
By: Ann Brown What with Yom Kippur being just around the corner, I have taken a moment to reflect upon my life. And so, in the spirit of numbering my days, I have gone back and calculated a few things. I present to you, my Jewish year 5773 in minutes: Minutes I spent this year […]
By: Ann Brown Oh my GAWD. Robin is such a baby. All I said to him yesterday was, “About 50% of the time, I wish you were dead”, and he cannot let it go. All day long – at the hardware store, at lunch, at the river – he’s all, “really? You wish I was […]
by Tanya Ward Goodman The mouse is named “Candy Corn.” He is grey on the top and bottom with a white middle. When we first saw this mouse, my daughter proclaimed in very passionate tones that he was “the mouse of her destiny.” In the words of Taylor Swift : “Trouble, trouble, trouble…” “We have […]
By: Ann Brown Nina and David are coming up to visit next week. And may I just say, YAHOO. We have begun planning. Nina emailed this morning to say that all she wants to do is lie around on the back deck chaise lounges and eat sushi. I am exceedingly relieved to hear that because […]
