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snow day

In: Life With Children

Friday was a major/classic snow day. Not only were all the schools closed, but so were the colleges and universities. The whole town screeched to a halt under a foot or so of snow. That’s like routine snow around here; what made the difference is that it fell overnight, before the plows [...]

Yesterday I felt like my day had been cut up with scissors. I’d no sooner get home to settle into something that needed to get done than I was out the door dropping someone off or picking someone up. Yanni had rehearsal for Dolly in the morning and a call for makeup for [...]

story magic

In: Life With Children

Sometimes, if you’re lucky, your older child will tell you what fascinated them when they were little. Yanni and I were remembering how she had memorized a special story when she was 2 or 3. ‘C r a c k! A little chick popped out of an egg. My, what a [...]