This is one of those “relentless challenge of parenting” gratitudes. Since there’s obviously a lot to be grateful for in facing the challenges of parenting and since my reflections on the theme will certainly continue, I’ve gone back to January to create a tag for parenting. Unless things change, the tag will be visible at…
Category: Gratitudes
03/09/2021: the natural wonder of nematodes
For a couple years, our apple crop has been plagued by coddling moths. The larvae of coddling moths burrow into the fruit early on in the season, feed on the seeds, and when the mature worm has freeloaded until it’s full, it makes its way out of the ruined fruit and, as if to add…
03/08/2021: family skateboarding
When I was 30 and living in New York City, I broke my arm skateboarding. In the couple of days between the accident and when my mother was able to make it down from Vermont to Brooklyn to give me a hand, a family friend and guardian angel named Pat assisted in getting me from…
03/05/2021: 10-second recordable sound module
One of the four bins in the twins’ cubic storage shelving is dedicated to what I’d consider “miscellaneous”. It’s a potpourri of misfit pieces consisting of parts of toys no longer in the house, pieces waiting to be magically sorted out and placed in their appropriate elsewhere, and some other totally random bits from the…
03/04/2021: the ice cream maker lives another day
For as long as my (now) wife and I have been living together, a cubic foot of our shared space has been occupied by a forlorn ice cream maker. What kind? The kind that keeps company with similarly useless objects at thrift shops, on curbs, or at garage sales. If you don’t know the one,…