Last Thursday was a snow day for my kids. Which meant an unexpected day to entertain the little ones, while not dumping more Kahlua in my coffee than necessary. Because, as much destruction happens when I’m coherent, I can only imagine the amount of destruction that would happen if I was not coherent. Some of […]
If you have children you surely understand what it means to have cabin fever—the kind of condition that leaves children with boundless energy while homes and parents suffer the consequences of said boundless energy. As far as a work-life balance goes, I’d say I have it pretty good. I spend three days a week in […]
So perhaps you’re staring in puzzlement at the title, wondering if April Fools’ arrived a few months early. But think about it for a few precious seconds: do we get enough snow to turn psychotic by May? Even if we did get decent, mildly Biblical amounts of snow a year ago, our totals were still […]
Maybe I should start off this post by titling it, “Things we mostly take for granted, except for the azaleas.” After all, the azaleas are a very big draw to the facility in spring and people have nearly given themselves coronaries because the Arboretum is basically doing some drastic site maintenance. Anyway, at just a […]
Living in southern New Jersey meant that we had to drive anywhere we wanted to go, so when I turned 17 all I wanted was the autonomy that my driver’s license and a car would bring. I drove to school, to work, to the community pool a half mile away, to the Wawa around the […]