every day living with a touch of creativity
I subscribe to Real Simple magazine. I get party invitations in the mail at least six weeks prior to the event. I return emails (usually) within 24 hours. I have spent significant time in the kitchen organizing aisles of Bed, Bath, and Beyond. I haven’t lost a single student paper in 22 years of teaching. [...]
There have many times since becoming a parent when I have been asked, “How do you do it?”—“it” being everything that needs to be done in a given day as the mother of three young children and full-time teacher. I have always believed that the trick dwelled in not thinking too much about it. Just [...]
“Spend time every day listening to what your muse is trying to tell you.” –Saint Bartholomew My first muse arrived in 2004, my second a year later, and my most recent in 2009. My children are my muses; and though prior to their arrival I understood the concept of a muse, I can honestly say [...]
In honor of St. Valentine’s Day–and brought to you by my favorite Valentines four-feet-and-under–may I present an interview with my three sons: a series of questions about love posed to my very contemplative seven-year-old Oscar; the embodiment of feeling, Edgar, age six; and he who is eager to show off his burgeoning language skills, two-and-a-half-year-old [...]
“With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.” Eleanor Roosevelt The scene is approximately 8 PM on a Friday night. Oscar, age 7, has had a particularly challenging day. He is exhausted, quiet, and pensive. He sits on his bed with his mother, also tired from the trials of the day. His room [...]
The scene is Samantha’s car—which smells like Christmas. It is filled with greens to adorn the exterior of her home, a 1900 Victorian cottage nestled in one of Newport, Rhode Island’s most historic neighborhoods. Having grown up in an apartment—with an artificial tree and blue plastic garland, this was a tradition she and her [...]
The scene is Sunday, 6 November 2011 at 6:15 AM, which, after the end of Daylight Savings’ Time, feels like a very reasonable 7:15 AM to at least one of the human characters in this scene. To the other, it most assuredly does not as she had stayed up entirely too late the night before [...]
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