Prom Season
Prom dress shopping got me thinking about 1981.
holidays and celebrations
Holidays 2024
Happy and Merry to all. Our yearly letter, celebrating big changes.
Passover
Loving the annual hopeful ode to Spring, renewal, and freedom from oppression.
Happy Holidays 2023
Wishing you wonderful holidays and the very best in 2024!
On Becoming My Parents
I’m thankful that life is long enough we can make a few 180 degree turns.
Love Parade
Trying to take it all in as I hit what I hope will be the “fourth quarter.”
Holiday 2022
2022 was a lot! My family’s year in lists and photos.
And, Summer
I still feel the school year rhythms deep in my bones, after all these years.
Holiday 2021
Happy Holidays and wishing you a joyful 2022.
Holiday Letter 2020
Online holiday wishes to you and yours!
Can We Hold Onto It?
Am I losing faith, or is there still wonder to be found in the world?
The Santa Story
Luckily when Jaden asked, I’d been on Facebook and had just the right answer. I’m not on Facebook a lot; I had to take it off my phone for all the usual reasons, FOMO, comparing people’s vacations to my sickdays at home with the kids, and outrage fatigue. Anyway, Jay was out of town, it…
Night Walk
We returned from London in time to celebrate Jaden’s 8th birthday at home. He had insisted on this, had threatened not to go with us if we didn’t agree to be here, home, for his birthday. And we were. But it’s been over 20 years since I was in Europe, and I didn’t think about jet…
Notes on (Family) Camp
We spent a week at a camp for GLBT families July 29 to August 6. Yes, 8 days of camp. Here are some notes and photos. Saturday Arrived with ash falling from the sky and the sun red from smoke. Hot as hades. They said a fire burning South of Quincy wasn’t moving this way;…
Saying No to the Spring Fling
The speeding up of life has been well documented, but it continues to take me by surprise. Each annual event that comes along, Jay says “I can’t believe it’s time for that already, it seems like it was just a few months ago.” Somewhere in a pile on my desk is the Haggadah Jay’s dad created…
The House that Love Built
I was somewhat alarmed about wrangling my kids through the wedding of my dear friends Kenny and Paul. Not that I wasn’t thrilled about the event. And not that we weren’t ready. We had the dress up outfits ready. They love their uncles and were excited to go. But they’re also in a feisty anti-authority…
The Love Boat
I’m not sure anything could have prepared me for being aboard the Disney Wonder, the 2,500 passenger cruise ship that swallowed us up and took us away last week. Certainly not the industrial Galveston, TX port, where except for a few Mickey-themed banners we might have been going into a warehouse to inspect the seafood catch…
The Hard Work of Good Fun
I laughed out loud to read my friend Whitney’s caption under a delightful movie of her child sledding in snow. “This video is misleading,” she wrote, “Today has not been all fun and games.” While she’s always enjoyable to read (and her blog 510 Families is an East Bay must for parents), my delight was also because I’d…
Happy 2016
The Cheesy Holiday Letter Goes Online
You Can’t Go Home
We had a lovely Thanksgiving visit with Grandpa Ted and Grandma Mary, packed with adventure. We joined 40,000 in a downpour for the Austin “Turkey Trott,” the one mile kid version, raising funds for local housing and food services. The kids dug for genuine Texas dinosaur bone casts buried beneath a giant sand pit at the Nature…
