thoughts from a freckle-faced pisces
Before my daughter gave birth in March to Mabel, I accompanied her to Buy Buy Baby. Out of the newborn business since 1994, it was like stepping off the plane into a foreign country where the language, customs, and terrain were something hinted at in a book I once read but which now only vaguely … Read more
Two years ago Mark and I took a road trip to Montana. He was attending a meeting in Hamilton, where nestled in a small town in the Bitterroot Valley is the Rocky Mountain Laboratories. Highly secure from the general public, it is where diseases, like salmonella, anti-resistant bacterial infections, MRSA, and Lyme are studied. Included … Read more
About this time last year we got a save-the-date card for a wedding the following May. I had no idea who these people were. There was no return address and only the first names of the couple were on the postcard. I showed it to Mark and together we studied it for a good long … Read more