Fast times and wild living with (the former) Baby Whozit…
Posted in Jessica, Little Boy, Simon says... on May 1st, 2011
I try not to brag. And when I do, I try to balance out my bragging about Simon with an acknowledgement of a weakness. No one likes the obnoxious, bragging parent, and no kid is perfect. Having said that, tonight I’m going to brag. I’ve got the sweetest kid I could imagine having—a kid for […]
Posted in Jessica, No Boundaries on Apr 28th, 2011
The dawn of my decision to run went something like this: “Hm. You are forty (one) and beginning to have skinny-fat legs. What are you going to do about that? Yup, yup, there’s no use denying it; you are going to have to work out. But how? Back to the gym? No. You never go, […]
Posted in Friends, Jessica, Little Boy on Apr 26th, 2011
What a day. Around noon-ish yesterday, I noticed a yellow jacket in Simon’s bedroom. “Hm,” I said out loud. “How’d you get through the screen?” Then I pushed the screen out a tad and let the unwelcome guest fly out. Later, I saw another yellow jacket in the living room. “Shoo!” I said, this time […]
Posted in Friends, Jessica, Little Boy on Apr 23rd, 2011
If there is a single lesson I’ve learned from my Sudanese friends, besides to be grateful every day for the life I was born into, it’s that charity does not exist the way I had previously imagined it. It’s not just that I think altruism is a myth (most people I know who volunteer find […]
Posted in Jessica, Little Boy, Simon says... on Apr 20th, 2011
Last night, right before my evening run, I set out my clothes on the bed: running bra, tank, skort.* Simon walked in the room, looked at the skort, and picked it up. “What’s this, Mommy?” “It’s my running clothes.” “No, Mommy, this looks too small for a grown-up. It must be for me.” Out of […]
Posted in Family, Jessica, Little Boy, Simon says... on Apr 19th, 2011
Sunday night Simon, Matt, and I went over to my Uncle Sam’s house to visit with my cousin Connie and her husband Louis. Connie is Sam’s oldest daughter and the only other granddaughter of Helen and Aaron. As I’m the youngest grandchild–we’re 18 years apart–I’ve always thought of the two of us as the Goldstein […]
Posted in Family, Friends, Jessica, No Boundaries on Apr 17th, 2011
I took a little break here. Did you all miss me? The reasons being: 1. I got sick again. My sinus infection never really went away, so I saw my doctor on Wednesday and am now four days into a new round of stronger antibiotics. The day I decided I needed to take action was […]
Posted in Jessica, Little Boy on Apr 12th, 2011
It’s amazing to me how fraught family friendly television programming can be. Case in point: Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom. When I was a kid, if my fuzzy memory serves me, this show was usually about Jim nearly getting his face eaten by a lion while Marlin sat in the Land Rover providing color commentary. […]
Posted in Jessica, Little Boy, No Boundaries on Apr 8th, 2011
Slightly warmer and significantly longer days are getting us all outside after an unusually long winter. My spring training is, of course, the New Balance No Boundaries Couch to 5K program. After tomorrow’s run, I will be half-way through the program. After four weeks of finishing so far ahead of the rest of the run-walk […]
I’m hosting a baby shower for my friend Alek, Agotich’s mother. Invited guests include fellow members of the Refugee Education Fund and a mix of American and Sudanese women. We didn’t have much lead time for the shower, and it was hard for Alek to gather everyone’s addresses. So she gave me a list of […]