After attending a kindergarten forum last night, Sam and I headed to our favorite neighborhood bar for some decompression. Wasn’t it just last week that we were bringing a baby home from Chicago? How is it possible we’re getting her ready to go to school? And is that really a gray eyebrow growing in above [...]
Ruby had already buckled herself into her car seat when she realized she’d forgotten the drawings for her teacher. I ignored the urge to say, too bad, kid. We’re late. Chalk it up to a lesson learned about having your shit together. (God, how I love my fantasy life.) Instead I channeled June Cleaver, set [...]
I had just come from Madalena’s and was driving to meet my husband for a late afternoon drink when I got picked up. Never mind that I had worked out that morning and was still in my gym clothes, marinating in my own grit and stink and general grossness derived from being packaged in Lycra [...]
Motherfucker.
And the DNC slams the hammer down squarely on the head of the nail: “The Republican Party has thrown in its lot with the terrorists — the Taliban and Hamas this morning — in criticizing the President for receiving the Nobel Peace prize. Republicans cheered when America failed to land the Olympics and now they [...]
My house is pleasantly, uncomfortably, hysterically silent right now because my husband took our little crumb-dropper to the land of Nonni and Papa, the home of happy cows and homemade custard. I dropped the two of them at the airport, said my good-byes and my I’ll-miss-yous and then tried not to squeal the tires on [...]
If your life were coming to an end, and you knew it, how would you spend your last days? Would you wallow? Or would you sing duets?
We picked up the San Francisco Bay Guardian yesterday and it happened to be their “Best Of” issue. Thank God we found it because we had no idea how many interesting things there are to do in this city. This is what Sam is doing Monday while I take Ruby to the rooftop carousel at [...]
I went out for drinks with the girls tonight and came home to this: This is especially extra adorably good. And totally worth all those nights when she didn’t sleep. Especially after a bottomless glass of wine and good conversation and no judgment when I admitted—to my embarassment—that I’m reading the wholly horrible “Twilight.” I’m [...]
I love Ross Ching’s time-lapse videos (my friend Nathan Gibbs turned me onto them a couple of years ago…check out his Eclectic series). I also love Death Cab for Cutie. Imagine how much I must love the combo of the two. Enjoy! Death Cab for Cutie – Little Bribes from Ross Ching on Vimeo.