For the last two months or so, we’ve been getting a “box” of vegetables from Suzy’s Organic Farm every-other-week. We pick up our veggies at the elementary school Ruby will be attending come September—excuse me for a minute while I get a tissue… Oh Jesus. Hold another second, please… Ah, that’s better. Off to school [...]
In Bits & Pieces, Photos on
5 August 2010 with 6 comments
I love fashion. It’s not a secret. But I’m not very good at putting things together in a creative or original way. I actually suck at it. Quite magnificently. When I go shopping, which I don’t care for at all, I tend to buy the same thing over and over and over again. I don’t [...]
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14 June 2010 with 9 comments
Our neighbors had a yard sale this weekend, providing a spontaneous photo op. And, of course, there was a natural evolution.
In Family, Marriage, Photography, Photos on
23 May 2010 with 8 comments
Today was the first day of the year that felt like summer. It was warm out—not hot—with a mostly cloudless sky as blue as a Popsicle®. It was quintessential Southern California, the kind of day that begs you to toss your obligations out the window and head directly for the beach with your Coppertone, a [...]
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1 May 2010 with 6 comments
Within a week after the news that Torry Ann Hansen had put her 7-year-old adopted son alone on a flight to Russia carrying with him her resignation letter, we received a thick envelope from our adoption agency. I thought it was a request for a donation, so when I read the contents, my stomach dropped. [...]
In Adoption, Backwards and In High Heels, Family, Parenting, Photos, The Column, Writing on
28 April 2010 with 5 comments
Everything changes. Of all the many things about which I am uncertain, this is not one of them. The only thing we can count on in life is that everything—and I do mean everything—will change. Nothing stays the same and I hold onto this knowledge when life is darkest. It is the philosophy which has [...]
In Life, Love, Photography, Photos on
10 April 2010 with 3 comments
Every Wednesday at 5-o’clock, Ruby has swim class. Once her thirty minutes of floating, leaping, belly-flopping and retrieving pink plastic rings has elapsed, it is our routine to head for the locker room and change her into her “soft pants.” This has proven to be a giant effort because while I’m trying to get her [...]
In Body Image, Love, Parenting, Photography, Photos, Self-worth, Therapy Fund (Parenting Failures), health on
5 April 2010 with 9 comments
I woke up this morning and declared that I have diabetes, given all the weird symptoms I’m suffering since coming home from Positano. Sam took that moment to laugh in my face and remind me of the severe jet lag I’m experiencing. He could be right, I suppose: I have been drinking rivers of water [...]
In Paris/Italy 2010, Photography, Photos on
31 March 2010 with 7 comments
I dropped to my knees today and licked the sidewalk. Well, I didn’t really do that. But I wanted to. Instead, I drank wine. I ate cheese. And took a long walk in the rain. I saw lovers. Of course. And the same ‘ole, same ‘ole. And I fell in love again.
In Love, Paris/Italy 2010, Photography, Photos on
19 March 2010 with 8 comments