Yearly Archives: 2011

Two kids on scooters and then one tires and is in the stroller with Amelia while the other (Micah) keeps riding and asking me every few minutes how much further we have until we get to the bookstore.  We finally … Continue reading →

Recently, clothing designer Kenneth Cole compared a women’s right to have an abortion to a women’s right to choose the handbag of her choice. Not cool, not avant garde…just sick.

Can I get away with saying that I had fun running 13.1 miles in the Queens half marathon on Saturday?  I didn’t think fun and half marathon could be used in the same sentence but there is something exhilarating about … Continue reading →

The Christian life seems to be all about surrender.  “Have your own way, Lord, have Your own way.  You are the potter, I am the clay” goes the old hymn.  And it is so.  Not surrender in an hopeless, despairing … Continue reading →

The Christian life seems to be all about surrender.  “Have your own way, Lord, have Your own way.  You are the potter, I am the clay” goes the old hymn.  And it is so.  Not surrender in an hopeless, despairing … Continue reading →

As I look at these pictures from our recent day trip to Mystic, Connecticut, I am reminded of these lyrics:  “Happiness is relative, based upon the way we live.”  I forget where I heard them but they stuck in my … Continue reading →

How could I know after moving to Brooklyn that one of my closest mom friends would be a fellow Canadian…we went to the same summer camp, Pleasant Bay, growing up (though in different years), are familiar with the same haunts in Eastern … Continue reading →

On Monday, we got the curriculum we had ordered from “My Father’s World” and it was like Christmas.  Beautiful books galore and Micah actually cried when I told him we couldn’t start everything right away!  Like many parents, we teach Micah … Continue reading →

  I jump and then plan.  I sign up for a half marathon because I want to be forced into running more regularly by a pressure bigger than my will can often overcome.  I’ve been an off and on runner … Continue reading →