Tangent: Attachment Parenting My daughter is considering residential camps for this summer. She’s done day camps since she was five years old, but sleep-away camp is uncharted territory for us, … Continue reading TBR List Declutter, Issue 43
Tangent: Social Media Prune The title of this tangent is inspired by (stolen from) a recent podcast by Katy Bowman (episode #101: Social Media is (Still) Shaping Your Body), but I’ve … Continue reading TBR List Declutter, Issue 42
Tangent: The Best Defense My cat, Owen, turned eighteen this past February. He’s starting to look like a bit bony and a little scruffy, he sleeps even more than he … Continue reading TBR List Declutter, Issue 41
Tangent: Friends and Flatterers During lunch, my children and I have been listening to Stephen West’s “Philosophize This!” podcast. Recently we heard about Plutarch’s distinction between friends and flatterers. A … Continue reading TBR List Declutter, Issue 40
Tangent: Physical Education None of us had any clue what field handball was, and my children had never taken a P.E. class before, yet here we were on a sunny … Continue reading TBR List Declutter, Issue 39
Tangent: On Letter-Writing For the past year, I’ve been exchanging letters with a prison inmate through the letter-writing ministry of the Unitarian Universalist Association’s Church of the Larger Fellowship. Because … Continue reading TBR List Declutter, Issue 38
Tangent: There are no obvious invertebrates in today’s Visual Interest, so it’s safe to tell you about “Chicken Casserole.” I put “Chicken Casserole” in quotes because I always think of … Continue reading TBR List Declutter, Issue 37
Tangent: In León, Spain, last November, we’d just eaten a meal that included a selection of cured meats—jamón ibérico, chorizo, lechazo, morcilla, cecina. On the way back through the old … Continue reading TBR List Declutter, Issue 36
We started January with a cross-country road trip, and ended February with the sale of our house in Massachusetts and are only a few days away from closing on a … Continue reading Bookends: January and February 2018
Tangent: We’ve been living in temporary housing for nearly eight weeks, courtesy of my spouse’s relocation package. When we moved to Massachusetts in 2011, that meant living in an extended-stay … Continue reading TBR List Declutter, Issue 35
Tangent: This is the third time I’ve lived in San Diego. The first was from age seven months to age four, the second from age seven to age ten, and … Continue reading TBR List Declutter, Issue 34
Tangent: I’ve been reading Sherry Turkle’s Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less From Each Other (which is on my TBR—TBR List Declutter success story!). The book … Continue reading TBR List Declutter, Issue 33
