Five years ago this Christmas, I gave The Husband a digital SLR camera. His film rig, which is a fairly professional set-up, had been gathering dust for a few years at that point. As the prolonged death of film photography hastened, so did his interest in taking pictures. He studied photography in college and already …
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Gratitude
Thanksgiving Day is this week. It apparently comes as a surprise to my Mother when I remind her to please bring the stuffing on Thursday. “That’s not this week!” Yes, Mom. It is. Living in any western democracy is a feat of luck, let alone being born in the United States. The exhaustive list of …
Adventures in Babysitting III: Game On
I did two things when I woke up this morning after a very late night out. First, I sat up and assessed which muscles hurt the most. Second, I looked in the mirror to see whether my Hello Kitty hand stamp had transferred to my cheek or forehead. No, we weren’t the “old” people at …
Tip Toe Through The Tulips
Pomp and Circumstance Over the next several weeks of spring, more than 3.1 million students will earn a degree in higher education, ranging from a two year associates on up to a doctorate (National Center for Education Statistics, Projections of Education Statistics to 2018, Tables 27-30). They will pour forth from the halls of academia …
Adventures in Babysitting
On Friday night, my husband and I spent the evening babysitting my nephews so that my sister and her husband could enjoy a much needed night out (read as: going somewhere where they can have a few drinks and the shouting is at hockey players instead of kids). D. and K. are ages 4 and …