Fast times and wild living with (the former) Baby Whozit…
Posted in Family, Jessica, Little Boy on Sep 1st, 2010
Thank God it’s September. What a long, strange, miserable month August was. The very first week I attended a cousin’s wedding and watched my friend Gabriel’s family reunite. Then it all crashed around me. Sudden pet death. Anticipated pet death. Family illnesses not blogged about. Two deaths related to friends of the family. Except for [...]
I’ll keep this brief, as I wrote quite a bit about a Percy when he turned 15 a year and a half ago.
After four weeks of an iron supplement and two weeks of thrice-weekly subcutaneous fluid therapy, Percy appeared to have turned a corner yesterday. He had been more active and social for over a [...]
I had planned to write a tribute for Tristan when he turned 15, but he had other plans, took a sudden dip in health this week that we hardly noticed with all the Percival drama, went into total renal failure today, and had to be put down at age 14 years, 3 months. I wrote [...]
Posted in Family, Friends, Jessica, Little Boy on Jul 6th, 2010
I hosted a July 4 party this year, my first ever. This has always been my brother Perry’s holiday, but he returned from vacation the night before this year and so didn’t have time to put on his usual grilling, explosive-laden extravaganza . I’m guessing he’ll reclaim the day next year, but I’m so happy [...]
Posted in Family, Jessica, Little Boy on Jun 28th, 2010
Six months ago or so, getting together with his cousins meant that Simon spent much of his time with Liv, the oldest of my brother Steve’s brood. Liv is now 11 ½ and has always been the “Mommy Jr.” of her household. So the larger Goldstein family would get together, and I would inevitably find [...]
Posted in Family, Jessica, Little Boy on Jun 21st, 2010
The Gallery photo album is down for a bit. We’d been using an outdated model, and the clock finally ran out on the old version working. Once Matt figures out the new, overhauled software, we’ll be back in business.
Today is the official beginning of summer, as the 97-degree temperature is making all too clear. Tomorrow [...]
The summer I was eleven, my mother took me to visit Highland Middle School so I could familiarize myself with the building before starting school. We were greeted by an office worker who looked at my mother carefully and asked, “Are you Hanna Rita Wolfson?”
My mom would have just turned 42 when this happened, making [...]
I used to rather smugly consider myself something of a historian. I did, after all, spend five years in graduate school studying the languages and cultures of the Ancient Levant and Mesopotamia. Read enough about historiography, translate enough cuneiform, and spend a couple of seasons in the field, and you start to feel like you [...]
Thanks to everyone for their happy pet stories after I posted about Kitty Friend. It looks like Kitty Friend’s story is getting added to the pile.
He has now been with Jim and Evie for two weeks. They both think he’s just as sweet and wonderful as I did, and the new family seems to be [...]
Monday through Wednesday this week, Kitty Friend moved onto my porch and deck. He waited for us to come out and play, he ran between mine and Simon’s legs when we raced around the house (Simon demands that we alternate winning these races), and he plopped in my mom’s lap for a nice snooze when [...]