Here’s our short fringe entry this year. This is the very pretty program insert that Ava Love Hanna put together. Had a great time rehearsing with friends from LTYM and the performance was terrific on opening night. We got asked to come back for the Best of the Week performance on Saturday and now have...
Continue reading9-year-old has taken sudden and dramatic interest in baseball. Off to get new glove and bat this weekend. He says “Baseball never gets old like reading a book does.” 7-year-old the most patient and encouraging coach ever, probably aware that this fragile interest is one errant throw away from withering. And then he’ll be...
Continue readingOh heck, I have this pretty site up now and everything. I’ll throw my essay in here as well. Let’s see how this works out. You can also see the video here. SECOND PLACE MUFFINS When I was seven or eight, my mother Nancy entered a baking contest. One of those old-fashioned ones run by...
Continue readingOh man, what a game that was. So stressful. So amazed and impressed that the team pulled through and beat the previously undefeated kids. Way to go!...
About to head off to 7-year-old’s championship baseball game. Funny how unimportant and non-competitive all these games seem UNTIL it gets to the finals. Now I’m so anxious! They’re playing a team that beat them at both their meetings during the season, so I’m trying to keep my expectations in check. But wouldn’t it...
Continue reading… somewhere else. Fellow LTYM alum Kristin VanderHey Shaw does me a great favor and honor by hosting my motherhood-related essay on her blog here. She’s a better editor than me, and knows how to set up a site, so I’m happy and grateful to her for making it look perty. Thanks for everything, Kristin!...
Hmm, I’m beginning to enjoy the fact that my phone is buried in rice. Maybe I’ll leave it there. As long as I can. Ahh…...
So I got caught in a drenching storm in Austin yesterday afternoon. Was actually playing disc golf with a few work friends at a course out by the airport. Midway through, the rain came, a little at first, then more and more, until we were out in the open fields, maybe a mile from...
Continue readingMan, that was one stressful game. Down four in the bottom of the last inning. Way to pull through, fellas!...
So my kid has his first baseball playoff game tonight, a day after the devastating tornado in Oklahoma. And the local weather site says this: It is important for you to know there is a threat of strong to severe thunderstorms for Central Texas this afternoon and evening. The entire area is under a SLIGHT RISK...
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