Seven years ago, I attended my 20th high school reunion. That night I talked to many people I had not seen for 20 years. In fact, I had not seen MOST of the attendees for 20 years. When I moved away from Louisville in 1988, I had little fondness for the city or its people […]
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The Further Adventures of Dolphie
Posted in Family, Jessica, Second Grader on Dec 16th, 2014
The yin-yang of big kid-little kid with Simon has reached dizzying heights. Consider today: 1. I catch Simon singing the theme song to the “Men in Blazers” show. These are two British expats who do a podcast and television show about football, or as they like to mockingly say, “saaaacker”. If that doesn’t sound like […]
I’m still here. Barely, but hanging on. October is always a busy month for us, but this October, THIS OCTOBER, has set the bar at a new level. Here’s some of what has been happening: Matt was on call for a week. Then he traveled to North Carolina for a week. Then he started a […]
Changing of the Guard
Posted in Family, Jessica, Second Grader on Aug 26th, 2014
Much to my surprise, the era of Dirty Dog and Dirty Dog’s Twin appears to have reached an end. For the past week or so, they have spent the night with me, as Simon has determined that I can “take care of the 7-year-olds” while he attends to the younger set. This is all a […]
So there’s been something afoot in our house for the last six weeks or so that I haven’t written about: Cambria has been sick. One day in early May, Cambria gobbled up his dinner and then promptly thew it all up. I teased him for eating too fast, re-fed him, and forgot about it until […]
Below Average
Posted in Family, First Grader, Jessica on Jan 8th, 2014
By now I’ve made it pretty clear that I hold my son in high regard. I think Simon is sweet, smart, and a surprisingly good athlete. I’ve copped to his being a picky eater and non-awesome artist, but many of my posts focus on his strengths. This isn’t one of them. Because good grief the […]
My Louisville peeps all know that we’ve had our first winter storm Friday. Over the course of the day, we got rain, freezing rain, sleet, snow, and “winter mix”. As a result, the following things were canceled: Preschool on Friday Simon’s school on Friday, including a presentation on Chanukah I was going to lead. Soccer […]
The Way Back Machine
Posted in Family on Jun 7th, 2013
When people go looking to connect me to my family, I usually steer them to my mom’s side. The Kahn/Wolfson half of my family was prominent in my family’s synagogue, close with one another, and was anchored by a variety of extroverted store owners. Plus, I knew or know all of them and how we […]
My Brother’s Keeper?
Posted in Family, Jessica, Kindergartener on Apr 8th, 2013
When Matt and I went to name Simon, we ended up with the name we did after several failed attempts to name after our grandparents. Finding no consensus in that direction, we landed on “Simon” for the simple reason that we liked it and thought it sounded good with “Whitworth”. In doing so, we inadvertently […]
Two years ago this week, I had what I called a Hillel moment and got off the couch. Literally. Matt was out of town, Simon was in bed, and I started assessing my general physical state: blood pressure at 120/78 was normal but higher than it used to be, cholesterol inching up year-over-year and now […]