After Christmas with V’s family I drive Daniel to San Jose Airport to fly down to LA to visit his dad. He gets out of the car and waves goodbye. I am not watching a 20-year old man with broad shoulders carrying his bags; I am seeing a little 6-year-old boy with a backpack walking away […]
Christmas Present
Christmas Past for V always included all the trimmings. Until he married me. If you walked into our house today, you’d never know it was Christmas. Around here, Christmas is just another day. When we first got married, we celebrated both Christmas and Hanukkah. In addition to the full eight nights of Hanukkah, we also hung […]
Coming home—the college Christmas migration
I’ve lived in California for a long, long time. Give me a rainstorm, a mudslide, an earthquake–I can handle it. But no snow. According to sophisticated population studies, millions of people actually live in the upper Midwest. And the vast majority of those people, despite the bitter cold and all that snow, manage to work and travel […]
Encounter with the Unknown
For all the time I’ve spent in our nation’s capital–multiple trips to every monument and memorial, it’s hard to believe I missed something. Then again, maybe it’s not a complete surprise that I never saw the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier–when you see this photo from an earlier visit to Washington. For many people like me from the Vietnam […]
Diss Functional Families
I got an email from a friend who said she felt jealous reading my blog because of how warm and wonderful our family Thanksgiving sounded. 5 minutes before I read her message, I saw a copy of a beautful book made by this very same friend for her father’s 85th birthday, filled with quotations from the entire family […]
Two Adorable for Words
One of the best parts of Thanksgiving has been seeing my niece’s identical twin girls, Marin and Ellie. They are the inspiration for my post “Grandma Envy.” Times two. They’re both beyond adorable– and in addition, Ellie already has great taste:
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