My year? Mixed bag. 2011 started off with some mighty mountainous tasks, and Sisyphus himself would have had a little chuckle as the boulder held the upper hand. But the months plodded along all the same and there were unexpected highs (Hello – a big scholarship to college for my son!), seemingly unending lows (Can […]
Archives for 2011
Old Love Letters: Treasure Them or Toss Them?
Old love letters may threaten current partners. Now what?
Divorce Over An Affair From 6 Decades Ago?
Seriously? I just came across this news brief from The Telegraph: A 99-year old Italian man is divorcing his 96-year old wife of nearly eight decades. Marriage is no bed of roses, but what could possibly prompt this sort of action? You got it. An affair. An affair which he uncovered a few days before […]
Why Hibernation Rocks (Or Would, If I Could Manage It)
The Single Mom’s Dream: sleep, sleep, sleep!
Cranky
I love having my children home. I love having my children home. I love having my children home. I do. Really. I love that my sons are home from college and here for awhile. But it’s been less than a week, and the Grand Central Station Effect is wearing me down sooner than anticipated. Contrary […]
Four Days and an Electric Train
Meal time and clean up had yielded to quiet time; company had headed home and my boys were off into the night to visit friends nearby. I settled in with 1949’s Holiday Affair, a simplistic romance between a war widow (Janet Leigh) and a sales clerk (Robert Mitchum). Sparks fly between these two over an […]
Clean Up
There are those who look forward to the “loot” on a gift-giving holiday (they hope to clean up), and the rest of us who wearily scrub counter tops (and bathrooms), pack away clutter (anywhere we can), resort to last minute maneuvers (piles pushed under beds), and an assortment of small house emergency organizing tactics – […]
A Dash of Dancer, A Bite of Blixen
With memories of reindeer scampering across the roof (really!), with kids trudging sleepily through the house (even at midday), with a little of this and that ready to be placed in the oven (and so much more to be whipped up and I’ve hardly begun!), with company en route and still in the foggy wake […]
A Few of My Favorite Things
With a busy weekend in process (and teens, teens, teens about the place), I thought I would share a few of my favorite things. First and foremost? My beautiful sons, both home from school, and sound asleep in their messy rooms, surrounded by their half-unpacked bags, after a night during which the household was up […]
First Holiday With Blended Families?
The holidays are here! Are you in a new relationship? Are you mixing your children with your partner’s children for the first time in a large gathering, and possibly parents and siblings as well? For new couples, the first occasion to spend the holidays together is an opportunity to create memories – special moments of […]