A lot. “And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow, stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so? It came without ribbons. It came without tags. It came without packages, boxes or bags. And he puzzled and puzzled ’till his puzzler was sore. Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn’t before. What if Christmas, he […]
My mom’s table settings are always beautiful. Mom, Kyle and Dad cooking in the kitchen. Grandma making stuffing. Mom cooking. beautiful Colleen Owen could have spent hours doing this. Sophie decked out for the holiday. fresh flowers (a gift from my dad to my mom), vintage linens, dinner plates from France, antique crystal wine glasses […]
Sophie wanted everyone to be bugs. Or fairies. Or butterflies. Whatever it was, that particular day (it always differs), James wasn’t too pleased. “If you were born without wings, do nothing to prevent them from growing.” —Coco Chanel
Once again, a wonderful Saturday with wonderful friends. “What I say is that, if a man really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.” —A. A. Milne
taken November 16, 2011 “Under my hood I have a hat. And under that My hair is flat.” —Karla Kuskin
It’s a good thing I don’t paint faces for a living. “Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.” —Carl Sagan
Happy birthday, Dad. I love you! “There’s something like a line of gold thread running through a man’s words when he talks to his daughter, and gradually over the years it gets to be long enough for you to pick up in your hands and weave into a cloth that feels like love itself.” —John […]
Sophie attends Country Hills Montessori three days a week in Fort Thomas. Robert White of White Photography, a CHM parent and professional photographer, took the class pictures this year. I love this one. This one makes me laugh. This is the face she makes when you say, “smile.” Her Great Aunt Susie, by the way, […]
Today an essay I wrote last year, titled “The Season of Innocence,” is featured on Southern Momentum. If you missed it last year, you can read it again, here. Thank you, Stephanie, for sharing it. “The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.” —William Butler Yeats
Today I’m featured on The Parent du Jour, as part of their Once Upon a Mom series. You can read my contribution, which includes a delightful story about pulling dry pasta out of Owen’s eyeball, here. And check out the other parents’ stories on the site, too (including my good friend Brian Klems, of The […]
![The kiddos at First Unitarian Church are collecting books for students at South Avondale School to help fill the free bookstore our church sets up at the school regularly. If you have gently used or new books you'd like to donate, please let me know and I’ll come by and pick them up! We mostly need Pre-K/K (board books, concept books [ABCs, shapes], not lots of large hardcover picture books), early readers, early chapter books and blank journals. Because of the importance of children seeing mirrors of themselves in these books, diversity is key. Thanks!!](https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/vp/1b0de463b3b6651ce328e04c69eefb61/5DAF8772/t51.2885-15/e35/p320x320/65600510_490323258372040_2015424398939439067_n.jpg?_nc_ht=scontent.cdninstagram.com "The kiddos at First Unitarian Church are collecting books for students at South Avondale School to help fill the free bookstore our church sets up at the school regularly. If you have gently used or new books you'd like to donate, please let me know and I’ll come by and pick them up! We mostly need Pre-K/K (board books, concept books [ABCs, shapes], not lots of large hardcover picture books), early readers, early chapter books and blank journals. Because of the importance of children seeing mirrors of themselves in these books, diversity is key. Thanks!!")
