Oh boy, life’s been busy. I helped a bunch of Lulu’s friends get our homeschool group’s first-ever yearbook off to the press. There was a fair amount of  last-minute photography and proofreading to do. Then I spent all weekend coordinating baked goods sales at Lulu’s ballet shows. Oh, and I had a kid turn seventeen. [...]

So, did you have a galactic Mother’s Day? I sure did. This card, made for me by Mr. T, assured it. His card reminded me that despite all my lacks and failings as a mother–if I’ve nagged too much, and complained too much and forgot to have fun on the weekends because cleaning the house [...]

The next installment in my little Year of Excellent Essayists project. random notes: I sure loved reading Joan Didion. I read most of The White Album when we were in Los Angeles. It was a treat to read Didion’s take on The Getty before we went there; to read about the Santa Monica Freeway as [...]

A few more things that have me all atwitter these days. the girls have arrived! We picked up our package of bees on Saturday, and introduced them to their hive that afternoon. There are so many of them–approximately 10,000 at this point! I love to sit near the hive, on the terrace wall that Chris built, [...]

So I have this crazy idea. I hesitate to write about it here for fear of jinxing it. But then I thought about my little essayist project, and how posting about it here each month has been such good incentive for me. I don’t think I would have kept up with reading these essayists if [...]

We’re back from our Los Angeles trip, only to find the weather even more beautiful up north. A spring heat wave has rolled into California, which made it pretty easy to spend the entire weekend in the garden. I have lots of catching up to do this year, after nearly neglecting the yard last summer, [...]