Game Off

The storm was a media darling, as all storms are. This one got a week’s press. It looked like a reliable snow day to me. It is. My traditional snow day debauchery is postponed because it is actually that bad. People have driven up my street. Not people in Miatas. I’ve been clicking through job […]

Families

Yesterday was the last day of holy carnival. Today is the beginning of keeping, as directed, “a holy Lent.” These two families, Mardi Gras family and church family, pull me in two directions in a way that is familiar. For many years, I had a mom and a dad who did not get along. Mardi […]

How To

Weekly Reader, 3, 2, 1 Contact, a Highlights for Children in the pediatrician’s waiting room. But I preferred grownup magazines: Reader’s Digest, which I scrutinized in the basement hallway, waiting for my mother’s piano lesson to end, and mine to begin. All those tiles with all those swiss cheese holes. And a million Reader’s Digests. […]

Dolls

My Barbie phase was rather short. My Sesame Guy phase went on forever. Yes, Barbie could wear clothes– a ruffly peach ball gown, a fluffy blue frock. That was her main advantage. On the minus side, Barbie was always single, in her 20s, and she was only qualified for jobs like photographer or magazine editor. […]