Taylor wins the 25 yard Butterfly!
A long time ago, while attending college in preparation to become a teacher, I learned something that has come to mean a great deal to me. It’s about kids… but more about character and self and how the heart meets the mind and spirit. And it’s about determination. Here it is: As teachers and parents [...]
Home
A perfect evening… Walking with Jane and her two beautiful dogs through my little New England town, nodding to passersby as they dash into shops open late for the holiday season and waving to friends through restaurant and cafe windows… then turning the corner onto my street to be greeted by my home. Home, with [...]
“Are you washing away your lines?”
I spent a few days with Audrey while her husband was out of town. All I can say is… thank God I have thick skin. Or, at least, “pretty lines.” I’m thinking that I must get William (just turned 4) and Alexander (just turned 3) together for a little tutorial in what NOT to say [...]
4 hours of what?
My dear, wonderful, fabulously funny friend, Beth at I Should Be Folding Laundry, posed an interesting query yesterday… if you had 4 hours of pretty much everything else in your world completely done (you know, like laundry), what would you do with this time? (OK. I know this is as preposterous as, what would you [...]
More than HOT Bloggers
I had the most magnificent weekend. I know it seems redundant to write about Bloggers-Who-Meet-Face-to-Face for the first time… you know, the slow-motion run along a busy city street while Chariots of Fire (or even more scary, Bolero) wafts though the clean, fresh air as two (or 11) bloggers henceforth total strangers but for their [...]
I fell in love all over again with old Cape Cod
Barry and I spontaneously took off this past Tuesday and headed to Cape Cod, or, as we New Englanders say, “the Cape.” The day was glorious… warm, breezy, beautiful sun in the big old blue sky. Our plan was to head all the way to the tip of the Cape, to Provincetown, but a 13-mile [...]
A little man and his milk!
There’s nothing quite like sharing a couple of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches with Pop-up on a warm summer afternoon at Grandma & Pop-up’s home… Except maybe when Grandma gives you a nice cold “bah-bah” that Mommy and Daddy think you’ve totally outgrown! OK, Benjamin. It’s our secret!
Happy Anniversary, Honey!
August 14, 1976. My name changed. My life changed. The greatest dream that any woman could ever dream came true when you said “I do” 32 years ago today. You gave me Keith and Adam. You gave me Audrey and Jane. These are beyond gifts. These are miracles. We began a journey that would give [...]
Florence Dorothy Couto… my wonderful mother-in-law
Florence Dorothy Couto. My wonderful mother-in-law. Flo passed away this afternoon, and I already cannot imagine life without this marvel of a woman. This bigger-than-life persona. This dynamo of energy. If ever anyone has left this world with big shoes to fill, it is Flo. My mind is a wandering stream of memories, laughter, great [...]
Twake me out to the ballgame
The good old national pastime. Baseball. You know, where you root, root, root for the home team? And eat, eat, eat ’til you’re as big as… well, Frank “The Big Hurt” Thomas. This past Sunday, Jane, her husband Steve, my husband Barry and I went to a baseball game at Fenway Park in Boston. The [...]
