It’s high midsummer and the sun has come back from her vacation in Seattle, or wherever she went while New England suffered the wettest, dimmest June on record. The pool water is finally warming up and blue-lipped kids can stop shivering on the side, protesting their swim lessons. Past the Solstice, past July 4th, the [...]
Entries from July 29th, 2009
Bad Dog Mom
July 22nd, 2009 No Comments
Here is the sad truth: I am a bad mother to my dog. Although I love her dearly, I have come to take her for granted and often realize that many days have passed without my giving her the love-fest of petting and scratching that she sorely deserves. I can handle tossing out a [...]
Sibling Harmony
July 20th, 2009 2 Comments
Binkies, bunnies, and baby-crap: $2000 Four years of disposable diapers: $4000 Photo of two sisters hugging: PRICELESS
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Sugar Kitty
July 13th, 2009 3 Comments
It’s 6 pm on a Tuesday night and my daughter darts up to me like a hummingbird high on nectar. She’s hit the dessert table at the preschool potluck and scarfed down an enormous double-chocolate frosted cupcake. Eyes preternaturally bright, grinning ear to ear, she zooms past and screams in delight, “SUGAR KITTY!” This [...]
Butter
July 8th, 2009 No Comments
No, not the Manhattan hot-spot where teen queens on Gossip Girl hang out and drink martinis Just good old solid stick-butter, pale yellow spreadable fat. The kind my girls like to put on their pancakes every morning, a slab of butter for every bite. Is this healthy? Certainly not, but my husband insists there are nutrients [...]
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June (a poem)
July 4th, 2009 No Comments
Up the apex of the year Up up up to the zenith Past the full moon racing straight into summer Rising light, light and still more light We climb the lengthening days till the Solstice Peonies bursting fat petals like fireworks– Only to start the slide down again.