First Boat Day of the Season
Despite all of the temptation to buy a boat, we’ve decided to spend another summer season renting one. (It is significantly less expensive to rent a boat ...
Tag: Mom and Dad
How is it February?
I don’t even know where to begin. My father had a stroke on Dec. 8 while on a business trip to California. On Dec. 12, he underwent open-heart surgery to ...
A Full Moon in December
It has been a full week fraught with surprise, worry, and anticipation. We are near the end of our fall semester, which means tests and papers and sorting grade...
A Sunday afternoon of horseback riding
Last week, on the first full day with my parents, we went horseback riding. As a family we’d only been once beforehand, and Jackson did not ride his own h...
Summer Road Trip 2016
We got home last night from what felt like a long and short family vacation. Long in the car, short with the family. The usual. This is how it is when you don&#...
Happy 38th Anniversary!
This photo first appeared in one of their college yearbooks. It has since been photocopied and passed around the family. I adore it. Happy Anniversary, Mom and ...