First Review for my new book, BEFORE YOU GO: “I just know it will be a best seller.”
Thursday, January 12th, 2012 Posted in Before You Go, Family | 2 Comments »I'm thrilled to announce that I just received the first review for my upcoming Young Adult novel, BEFORE YOU GO (Macmillan, July, 2012). Bloggers should note that the reviewer received an Advance Reader's Copy directly from the author by special ...
This Married Life
Thursday, January 5th, 2012 Posted in Family | No Comments »This cartoon from The New Yorker by David Sipress perfectly captures one small aspect of my domestic life. I handed it to Lisa and she exclaimed, "That's us!" The man's cluelessness, the wife's (over)reaction to his cluelessness, and the lack ...
Overheard: Maggie comments on the interior design of Chipotle
Friday, December 23rd, 2011 Posted in Family | 2 Comments »I know: I said I wasn't posting until 2012. And that's still totally true! Except . . . that Maggie just said another one and I had to get it down on paper. Or something like that. Anyway, my two boys, ...
Photo
Friday, December 16th, 2011 Posted in Family | No Comments »My youngest turns eleven tomorrow. I came across this old photo of us, probably about seven years ago. A certain kind of guy might even get a little weepy looking at it. Happy birthday, Mags.
Maggie’s Post-It Note Binder
Monday, November 7th, 2011 Posted in Family, Music | 4 Comments »My daughter is a slob. Let's get that out of the way up front. She makes messes and moves on -- blithely. Yesterday she sat at the kitchen counter with a stack of index cards, Post-It Notes, tape, a laptop, a ...
A Family Halloween Tradition . . . Falls Into the Gutter
Monday, October 24th, 2011 Posted in Family | 1 Comment »I've previously documented our Halloween scarecrow tradition. It's something we enjoy, keeping it alive for at least 60 years now. Well, this year, I don't know what to say . . . Here's the view from the other side (and yes, he's ...
Confession: I Finally Got Around to Reading “A Wrinkle In Time”
Monday, September 26th, 2011 Posted in Family, Readings | 2 Comments »". . . one thing I've learned is that you don't have to understand things for them to be." -- Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle In Time. When I was a kid, growing up in the 60's, I didn't read many children's books. ...
My Kid at College: A Two-Week Retrospective
Monday, September 12th, 2011 Posted in Family | 1 Comment »Nick has been away at college in Geneseo for a couple of weeks now. We're adjusting to his absence, trying to figure out the dynamics of this new relationship. As evidenced by this morning's text about the Jet game: JP @ ...
Overheard: “He’s Another Guy Trying to Put the Screws Into Me.”
Friday, September 2nd, 2011 Posted in Family | 1 Comment »That would be the voice of Grandpa Sal, my wife's mother's father. A man convinced that everywhere he turned somebody was trying "to put the screws into him." Chiselers were out to rip him off, con him, cheat him in ...
The First One Gone to College
Monday, August 29th, 2011 Posted in Family | 1 Comment »It's the question every parent inevitably asks. After, of course, what happened to my black hair?! My face??!! How did this . . . turn into this? Where did it go, all those times together? I don't have anything to communicate, really. It's ...