There comes moments in life, moments when you feel utterly helpless. Moments when someone close to you is breaking, fragmented, shattered. Moments when all you want is to desperately reach out to that person and hold them. Try to make everything go away, just give them peace. Comfort and peace and a safe place to […]
The Lighthouse
November 18th, 2008 · 4 Comments
Tags: Family · Parenting · Relationships
Our Own Private Wisconsin
July 25th, 2008 · 5 Comments
I would have killed for a cup of coffee last weekend. And I almost did.
We moved to a quiet quasi-suburban section of San Francisco a few months ago, forsaking a neighborhood surrounded by probably 20 coffee shops within walking distance to one with exactly zero. So if it’s a desperate Saturday morning and I’m out […]
Tags: Activities · Home · Parenting
DO Talk to Strangers!
July 11th, 2008 · 5 Comments
I was sitting alone on a bench by a duck pond, our ignored lunch by my side, while my two-year old daughter Fern, a dozen yards away, slowly fed her rice cake to an indulgent Canada goose. I suppose I must have looked like a safe parent, because just then a chummy 10-year old girl […]
Gossiping Good
June 25th, 2008 · 1 Comment
I went to the family reunion somewhat grudgingly.
A distant cousin had been doing research and discovered a pool of people that shared her great-great-grandfather. She planned a trip from Colorado to Michigan to Pennsylvania to Connecticut. She wondered if the Michigan people could meet.
So a bunch of people with Kies somewhere in their family tree […]
Tags: Activities · Family · Relationships
