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With all our shorthands, emoticons, tweets and texts, sometimes it is good to have a reminder that punctuation matters.
Sometime’s a child’s request is a snowball of ‘little things’ that make you feel like you are at the end of your rope. You are packing lunches, figuring out schedules, trying to find a new sitter, exhausted from the 1 a.m. request to come “lie with me because I’m sneezy and I can’t sleep” and…
Made with Rhonna Designsp Some days are just harder than others. Thank goodness there is always tomorrow.
A few weeks ago I posted about my little Superhero and Ballerina with the following thought: Superheroes don’t always wear capes and ballerinas aren’t always found in the dance studio. Anna’s Taqueria has a new kind of celebrity rolling burritos for charity because celebrities go beyond the sports field and silver screen. For several months…
I feel a cold coming on… Time to upgrade my morning with a smoothie. Olivia’s Organics was on sale at Whole Foods (Fresh Pond) so I bought a container of baby arugula for the Cat Cora salad I made last night, and I bought a container of baby spinach because we love spinach. This was…
As you may or may not know I’ve been a huge fan of Cirque du Soleil from the early days…when I was a poor student in Montreal, too poor to see the show, but found a way to see clips and follow them season after season until I could afford a ticket and was able,…
After the morning photos of 1st Day of school grins, with relative sizes of backpacks, levels of toothlessness, what is there? Well, these days there is the requisite Facebook status update, or Instagram photo, and then we head our separate ways to home, to work, to our PureBarre classes, and various non-traditional workspaces. Then comes…
I don’t remember getting new outfits, backpacks or lunch boxes each year for school. There were no #BTS haircuts, shopping trips, Instagram photos at the bus. My mom was not a shopper nor was she a photographer iPhone, 35 mm film, Polaroid or not. I still got the ‘back to school’ butterflies and excitement nonetheless….
Whether you watched the tides go out and come in, or you went to the city, or mountains or valleys, like every day, a vacation has its own ebb and flow. Really, each day has an ebb and flow, as does each year, each season. To every action there is a reaction and sometimes the…
On the beach today we play and live science, unforced, just curious…. (Made with Rhonna Designs.) Luckily, as the children sit buried toe to waist in sand, I can grab my phone and Google brings me to NPR for some insights. Which Is Greater, The Number Of Sand Grains On Earth Or Stars In The…
I miss the days of playing in our street until dusk. Until, one by one, groups of siblings were called in for bath, dinner, bed. As a parent, I miss the afternoon gatherings of parents and babies, toddlers, tykes at the playground to prolong the inevitable arrival of ‘the witching hour’. Once school and after…
Leah's Life: Pearls and Oysters 