This is a picture of the 4′ snow drifts that have developed outside our back door. The weather report is now calling for us to get @ 30″ of snow! The local ski areas must be beside themselves with delight given that this is happening right before one of their biggest weekends (MLK) of the…
Maybe it’s because I’m still a child at heart but I find that I get as giddy as my kids do whenever school gets called off. This morning the three of us made celebratory pancakes. All snow days are made better by an early morning sugar high after all! Of course some of my happiness…
A belated Happy New Year to all! Geez, when we left New England on 12/26 we just barely beat the first really big storm of the winter season by about 5 hours, though looking out my window right now you’d never know it. The ground has only patches of snow and in most places the…
Santa Claus in this case being the wifi signal I’ve been able to glum onto from Marina Cay here in the BVI. Yippee!!! Sorry Steve Jobs but the Iphone just really isn’t that great for checking or writing email no matter how many little catchy videos you guys produce claiming otherwise. It’s nice to be…
I hope that everyone who celebrates this holiday has a wonderful time with family and friends, whether your celebrations are big and raucous, small peaceful and reverent, or somewhere in between. For those of you of different faiths: may the proverbial Chinese restaurants and movie theaters be as empty as they are rumored to be,…
…there was chaos. I will grant that the current holiday excess is nothing compared to what it used to be. It seems to be a law of modern American parenthood that the smaller the child, the more out-of-control their parents and (especially) their grandparents behave on December 25th. Particularly with regards to anything made of…
