Home Sweet Home
I love, love, love my home. Especially on a spring day like this. And because while I am eating lunch on my deck I see this: I have lived in cramped apartments and cramped houses in big cities (Boston,...
View ArticleIt’s a Cruel, Cruel World
Almost every night for the last six years I have lain down with Fred as he drifts off to sleep. Some may question the prudence of this, but, seeing how my days of cuddling my little boy are numbered, I...
View ArticleA Mini-Travel Memoir of Japan
I’ve been back a week now, physically; mentally I’ve still got a little ways to go. ;-) Japan was wonderful: hectic, stressful, exhausting. I realize how much, after two years in beautiful and quiet...
View ArticleWhen the past finally feels like the past
For many, many years my stomach would get tight at the thought of visiting “home,” a word that until only recently had meant “childhood home,” the place where I grew up, the place of my parents. Before...
View ArticleThe world I want for my son
About this blog carnival: “The world I want for my children” is an effort to support The Joyful Heart Foundation, which was founded by Law & Order: SVU actress Mariska Hargitay to help victims of...
View ArticleWhen we fight in front of our children
There had been clues along the way. The prolonged hugging in the morning, before Fred left for school. “I love you too much,” he said, as he rested his cheek against my belly. I responded in kind and...
View ArticleDefining home
When I was in college, a “worldlier” friend used to enjoy making digs at me because I’d never left Boston. Indeed, I went to both college and graduate school right outside of Boston and I started my...
View ArticleIn search of the perfect work space…
This is where I work: on an espresso wood computer desk, overlooking a landscape of trees, in a nook in our bedroom right next to our bed. I arrived here earlier this spring after years of in-house...
View ArticleFinding an oasis in the midst of (December) chaos
December is never an easy month for me, no matter how many preventative measures I try to take. My peak month at work coincides with the holidays, cold and flu viruses, and school vacation (= no...
View ArticleA Short Literary Trip in Boston
I was back briefly in my hometown of Boston a couple of weeks ago. Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to call up any friends except for my 76-year-old second grade teacher. We had a small family reunion and...
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