Entries from March 2008

March 28, 2008

Word of the Day: Jodhpurs

Tomorrow, the Band family rises at dawn and heads to New Jersey – I know, it’s always the glamorous locations.

What compels us to wedge ourselves into a car and be subjected to the bickering of teenage children in the backseat for five hours?
The Drew University Equestrian Team
My son went off to college and, rebel that [...]

March 21, 2008

Word of the Day: Peep

 
It is Good Friday. It is a religious holiday and there is no school. That makes it a-not-so-good Friday at my house. Lewis has just come home from tennis practice with other boys and they are running around hiding each other’s rackets and making a racket. The house is shaking.

 
 

No [...]

March 13, 2008

Word of the Day: Democracy

The town I where I live has 42,389 residents. It is not a small town. Yet, it often seems like a tiny village – in good ways ( like how I always run into someone I know at the grocery store) and in bad ways (like how I always run into someone I know at [...]

March 9, 2008

Word of the Day: People

My son Lewis went to the movies today with “people.” Being a savvy mom, I know that “people” is a code word for a group that includes at least one girl.
 

Beware, Lewis.
While you have been busy memorizing the Red Sox line up and perfecting your hand/eye coordination on the Xbox;
the girls, have spent their [...]

March 4, 2008

Word of the Day:Gluten

I am beginning to believe that there is a God and that she understands that I am not the kind of mother who would be able to successfully parent a kid who is allergic to peanuts or who has ADHD or even a kid who is extremely gifted.
 
Fortunately, that is not the case [...]