Memory is the diary that we all carry about with us. Oscar Wilde A life without love is like a year without summer. Swedish Proverb Summer just screams beach trip to me. Back in June, my husband packed up our SUV and we headed down to Ocean City, Maryland, for a fabulously relaxing week with my […]
Hold onto your Bootstraps: The Anxious Mom’s Guide to Summer Adventure
After almost a decade of working hard and traveling for work, I am officially unemployed. With mixed feelings, a small sense of self-loathing for being a work force failure, and a much higher sense of excitement to spend some quality time with my daughter, I embrace the summer. Not since my maternity leave three years ago […]
The Summer Un-Schedule
This is a repeat post, but at this time of year we start thinking of summer. The kids have a fantastic program at their school that I decline with a smile every year. One of their teachers approached me the other day and before she even asked, she said, “Oh right, you’re beach people.” Yes, […]
Ode to a Jersey Summer Day
I got smacked in the chest by a cicada the other day. It was like a mini fighter plane, that awful hunk of a thing! It came out of nowhere and slammed against my breastbone with a loud, crunchy smack. As you might imagine, I squealed like a girl. Then reflexively batted the mini-monster away […]
Let the Games Begin!
Summer always seemed so limitless and free with endless days of wonderful possibilities until boredom set in around August. One way my sister L and I combated this boredom, with or without friends and relatives, was by playing board and card games. Recall a time before the Wii or any other game station…forget about computer […]