When the World Tilts

Sometimes, despite my best efforts and despite all my planning, things still have a way of going awry and in those moments it can feel like the world has shifted from its expected and anticipated normalcy. You see, I am someone who likes to believe I have greater...

Insight & Wisdom

When I was in my mid- to late-twenties, I drove from Connecticut to Maine to visit a college friend. Given that I am in my 50s, there were no cell phones and so there were no map apps by which to navigate to my destination. Because I’d never been to her place before,...

Out of Thin Air

One of my favorite parts of Facebook is clicking on the Memories heading and scrolling, through the years, a scroll along memory lane, if you will. This exercise of looking back and recalling days gone by is also something my teenagers enjoy alongside me; they take...

We’re All In

Many years ago I lived in Boston. I had an awesome one bedroom apartment right near the Prudential Center with a T-stop right on the corner where I lived. I could walk everywhere and I loved it. One of my favorite places to go was the Public Gardens because it was a...

Anticipation…

I don’t know if you’re old enough to remember the Heinz ketchup commercial from 1977, but it’s a classic that is lodged in my mind. It incorporated the lyrics from Carly Simon’s song, Anticipation, and it included two boys who were best friends and one was spending...

Long Live the Queen of Music

Some of my favorite moments with our girls involve music and, as I’ve written in previous posts, I am all about shared experiences and music can easily create those kinds of experiences. In fact, that is exactly what we enjoyed tonight as I led us down a rabbit hole...