Daily Thoughts
Learning the Way Together
When our girls were younger, we had a variety of ways for them to work through the day’s challenges. Things like Bilibo spinning seats, bean bag chairs, a mini trampoline, swinging at a local park, and other sensory and fidget options. But as they got older, as they...
My Best-Laid, Awry Plans
The best-laid plans of mice and men / Often go awry / and leave us only grief and pain / for promised joy! Many a time in my young life I have uttered these words (these, the more modern English translation of the Robert Burns’ original poem) made familiar to me by...
In the Books
When we first had our children, we had all kinds of visions and ideas of what our days would look like. Some of this was based on what my life had been like as a kid, and some of it was based on the way families were portrayed in movies, books, and television shows....
Flexing Our Flexibility
As a fan of the sitcom, Friends, I have a handful of favorite, and often iconic, episodes whose scenes stick with me and whose turns of phrases I sometimes utter without even really thinking about it. You may be familiar with them, too; Joey doesn’t share food! (this...
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...