So Chiara and I were in the kitchen tonight, when all of a sudden I heard a rustling of plastic bags and the pantry doors came flying open. I knew our dog, ...
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Dennis and Noah returned from the Boy Scout Camporee at Fort Ticonderoga, which is about two hours from our house up in the Adirondack Mountains. (Everything ...
Today was our school's regular First Friday Mass, and it was especially lovely, I thought. The seventh grade was in charge of planning, and they made beautiful ...
Chiara came through her minor surgery with flying colors. She approached it with curiosity rather than fear, which is more than I can say for her mother. Within ...
Happy Birthday to me. I turned 46 years old today. There's something monumental about crossing over to the 50 side of my 40s. More monumental than hitting 40, I ...
Here is Chiara at her new "creative movement" class, which she just adores. This picture looks "artsy" to me. Taken through a glass window, I love how the light ...
See that little yellow and blue tent above? That was my tent during the weekend Boy Scout encampment and retreat at the National Shrine of the North American ...
Believe it or not, I am going away for the weekend AGAIN. Only this time I have a feeling it's going to be a lot different from what I experienced on my silent ...
Dennis, who often talks about how he wishes he was more handy with stuff around the house, managed to pull off an extraordinary home repair yesterday, so I just ...
Before I get started on today's "official" post, let me first say how sorry I am that I disappeared for a few days. I have a huge work project that needs the ...
We spent part of our morning down at the Soccerplex, which is soccer central for parents of school-aged children in our town at this time of year. The long ...
September is one of those crazy months for parents with multiple school-aged children. Between back-to-school nights and picnics and practices, the calendar is ...
I'm back from my retreat, and, yes, I kept the silence -- easily, I might add. In fact, I loved the silence, wanted more of the silence, hated to break the ...
The day John McCain introduced Sarah Palin as his running mate, I made Noah and Olivia sit there with me and watch the announcement on CNN. That broadcast ...
I decided to do something special with the kids for the last official day of summer vacation, so we headed to Indian Ladder Farms for a little ...
No, not those kinds of pretzels. Recently I started adding a very basic yoga series to my bedtime routine. Nothing dramatic or strenuous. Just something restful ...
Sorry I've been away for most of the week. Every day I plan to sit down and post a thoughtful entry about this or that, but, quite frankly, this last week of ...
This morning Noah noticed a spider busily spinning an orb web near the holly shrub between our front porch and our garage. Not the best location in terms of ...
The other day Chiara was playing with an old cell phone, pretending to call a friend. I was at my desk and I heard her say, "Hi. So how was your day? Beautiful, ...
Now that my blog is here and my website is over there, I tend not to link to my Life Lines columns each month, which is just silly isn't it? I mean, a link is a ...