Record keeper

Sitting on the bottom shelf of the dining room bookcase are a row of fat, canvas-covered photo albums. They start at Nate’s birth, and dutifully carry on year after year, a line of brightly colored soldiers of family history. Some years, they’re scrapbooked meticulously. Others, they’re generated digitally from Kodak or Shutterfly. The most recent [...]

The world they’re inheriting

We’ve driving home from middle school; I’ve got a full car load of 8th grade boys. Their backpacks take up all the empty space at their feet, and they all smell slightly of sweat. I crack the windows because it’s April and the breeze is almost warm. Someone has a Z-bar and they all want [...]

Writing work

I love that I now write for a living. Full time. Full stop. Even just saying it makes me happy.  If you missed this bit of news, last month I took the plunge and quit my day job. I am now home from 8 am to 2 pm with only my screen (and my dogs) [...]

Retro Family Movie Night: Titanic

Yes, Retro Family Movie Night is back! We had a busy period where we simply didn’t have many Friday nights available, but that’s no way to live, so we’ve rectified it! Title: Titanic Debut: 1997 Rating: PG-13 Starring: Kate Winslet, Leonardo DiCaprio, Directed by: James Cameron Summary: (From IMDB): A seventeen-year-old aristocrat, expecting to be [...]