My sons were summer league swimmers, and my younger son also swam on his high school team. For fifteen years, I mostly shirked my swim-mom duties and let swim-dad own those responsibilities. You spend three to eight hours in the bleachers to see your child swim for a few minutes. That calculation might sound unmotherly […]

A rogue lemur has been in the local news. It’s rare to see lemurs in the news in Colorado. Not so in North Carolina, where we lived when our boys were little. Durham, North Carolina is home to the Duke Lemur Center. The world’s most famous lemur lived there. That rockstar lemur was Zoboomafoo, the […]

We have a 1998 Dodge Grand Caravan. It has a cassette player. Like some of us around here, it is showing its age. It did get a new battery this year, and we figured that would be the van’s last battery. Still, one day this week, the van wouldn’t start. The van feels like a […]

This is a picture of me and my sister. I’m on the left. I am VERY happy. Maybe you can tell from the picture, or maybe it just looks like a garden-variety happy kid picture. Not garden-variety at all. Finger puppets, people. I’m not so sure about my sister. She doesn’t seem unhappy to me, […]

This picture is what I think of when I hear “mama bear.” (Shout out to pixabay for the CC0 license for the image.) The mama bear has her baby. She loves her baby. But, after all, she is a bear, so if someone messes with her baby, watch out. The mama bear is my spirit […]

True that: we can’t forget that a lot of what happens in life is luck, good or bad. I wanted an image for this post that illustrated this idea for me. This photo is from a long-ago recital, with T accompanying N. Can you see the luck in the photo?

A friend posted a link to this “moms of boys” post. This was the part I especially liked: I can tell from the pick up line at school who the moms of girls are and who has the boys. Moms of girls arrive early to chat with the teachers. They wear fresh makeup, cute wedges […]