Light and Momentary

Often the window between Christmas and the new year is pleasantly quiet, but not this year: Elwood wound up in the hospital after a late-night ER trip. Continue reading

Thirty days, thirty posts. The end! Continue reading

If your fridge is too warm while your freezer is cold, and if the compressor is running constantly, it might be an easy fix. If there’s a glitch in the automatic defrost system, it will cause the freezer coils to encase themselves in ice. Cold air won’t be able to flow into the refrigerator if Continue reading

Yesterday our two oldest kids came for the day with their girlfriends. We ate our Thanksgiving dinner at an Indian restaurant and came home afterward for pie; the four of them all left in the evening. So today we had the three youngest kids at home, and then Joe’s girlfriend and Pete’s girlfriend joined us Continue reading

I am going to join in on Laura Vanderkam’s holiday season exercise streak plan. Unless a person is desperately ill, it’s always possible to fit in 15 minutes of some kind of exercise. I have a tendency to think wistfully about the workout I ought to do instead of doing the workout that’s available to Continue reading

One of my kids told me that their recollections of Thanksgiving consist mostly of time spent chilling out on the couch, talking to siblings and occasionally being asked to handle a food prep task. My recollections of Thanksgiving are not chill at all. I love Thanksgiving. It is most emphatically not a chill day. Maybe, Continue reading

Good news: all five kids and two of their girlfriends will be here on Thursday. Two additional girlfriends are coming on Friday. I love it that our kids want to bring the people who are special to them home for the holidays. This is the most important thing. Bad news: the coffee grinder has vanished Continue reading