Okay. There is no time for this now, as I am dealing with Housework Insurmountable, but this is too funny Not to record it. The picture: Emma Grace and friend Gillian, done up in plastic jewelry and my old slips, Queen and Princess, respectively. Everett and Clay, armed with plastic guns. They are spies, guards, […]

Ritz crackers. I do. Yes, I do. I could Easily eat a whole sleeve of them in one sitting. Maybe more. Sleeves, that is. Not sittings. Also, right now, right this very minute, my cat is biting my computer. Biting it. Biting the corner of the display box, biting the cord, biting and purring and […]

I’m bad at it. I hate it, really. Don’t do well At All. That’s the realization I’ve come to after two full days of a kind of funk, a simmering malaise. There’s no other explanation. I’m not hungry, not tired, not in need of …. other things. In fact, I have Everything In The World […]

It occurred to me this past week that, until I was a married adult, I never spent a day in July at home. In fact, from the time I was six years old until I left my parent’s house, I spent all of my Julys at my grandparent’s home on Eastern Long Island with my […]

Everett in Peconic Bay

Emma at the edge of the ocean

Happy Independence Day!

Everett in the parade

William and Oji-San in the parade