March Madness is coming and my boys are excited. For years, my husband and sons look forward to discussing, analyzing and then finally filling in their brackets and making their predications for the college basketball tournament. Usually they get in on the poRead full post »

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JANUARY 13, 2012 3:43PM

My Son the Baldie

My son shaved his head this weekend. Bald as a proverbial cue-ball. Except that  Michael’s head isn’t the smooth, clean ivory of a billiard ball. It looks more like a bad egg, fragile with lumps and bumps, tinged blue-grey with five o-clock shadow. The bones of his skull are

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NOVEMBER 8, 2011 3:25PM

Summers at the Shore

Summers at the Shore

There are many vanished icons of daily life. Things that were once common but simply don’t exist anymore – things like typewriters or dial telephones. Home delivery of milk or phone numbers that started with a word for the exchange, like GReenwood or CHestnut. The icRead full post »
JULY 15, 2011 5:10PM

Sparklefruit (my tiny hipocrisy)

         I might have avoided the whole ordeal completely if my 14 year-old daughter had not opened the mail before I got to it.        “Hey, we’re invited to a Sparklefruit party,” she said, as she slid a sh… Read full post »