August 14, 2023 Long live Pee-wee Herman, who normalized being weird and silly When the news of Paul Reubens’ death broke last month, I felt sad and nostalgic the way I do when any GenX icon passes….
August 12, 2023 My heart breaks for beautiful Maui Long-time readers of this blog know that our family loves the magical island of Maui. E and I spent our babymoon in Maui –…
August 9, 2023 Learn to play an instrument at Lewis Center Musicologie We’ve embarked on several fun new adventures already this summer. We took a family trip to Kauai. Z has been petsitting a ton in…
August 5, 2023 People don’t realize that Jet’s makes great calzones I’ve already written about my love of Italian bread and cheese sculpted into a slinky stromboli. Truly, bread and cheese in pretty much any…
July 29, 2023 This is THE monologue from 2023’s Barbie movie There is one moment in the new Barbie movie that is impossible to forget. It’s when America Ferrara’s character, Gloria – aka the mom…
July 19, 2023 Three spectacular naps I look forward to I spent most of my life not thinking much about sleep. I was an easy sleeper for decades. I just went to bed, put…
July 15, 2023 Our family’s obsession with the national parks continues As each year slips by, I become more convinced that surrounding myself with nature is the only sane way to go about this thing…
July 12, 2023 The summer of Z’s first real petsitting jobs The middle school years are challenging for so many reasons. Not only are kids prickly and hormone-fueled, but school is getting more academically challenging…
July 8, 2023 10 tattoo rules that will never let you down We all need rules to get through life. Some of us don’t like to call them rules and that’s fine. You can call them…
July 1, 2023 My new love of the dam stairs I used to really hate the dam stairs. We are lucky to live close to the amazing Alum Creek Dam in Lewis Center –…