It’s the 90 degrees out, but my kids are urging me to chill.
“Chill out, Mom” my son says when I ask where they are going and what time they’ll be home. “Chill out, Mom” means: ”I don’t want to tell you where I am going because you might not think that going to “The House of Pain” [...]
Entries from July 2009
July 29, 2009
Word of the Day: Chill
July 10, 2009
Word of the Day: Road Trip
On the back of the Reese’s Puffs (Hershey’s Cocoa and Reese’s Peanut Butter Sweet & Crunchy Corn Puffs) cereal box is a list of 18 things to do before you are 18. Maybe, because I have already showed a lack of good parental judgment by purchasing Reese’s Puffs for my child’s breakfast, General Mills assumes [...]
July 8, 2009
Word of the Day: ‘Hood
I love my neighborhood. Yesterday, Buddhists from the meditation center at the end of the street walked by in red robes and blessed my dog with a prayer wheel.
But it’s not just the Buddhists who make the street interesting. We’ve also got a doll maker, a childrens’ entertainer, an inventor and a former prima ballerina. [...]
July 2, 2009
Word of the Day: Camp
It was the night before Lewis left for two weeks at summer camp. Using the packing list that the camp had provided, he was checking off items as he stashed them in his big plastic footlocker. He had four bathing suits, twelve pairs of underwear a new package of socks, a rain poncho, a polar [...]
