Yeah, I’m not quite ready to let my son go, yet. But the day draws nigh. Nigh! We are three days from “move in” day, and no amount of cheery videos featuring the Anderson University football team lugging boxes and bedding up three flights of stairs is making me feel better. I know—this is a … [Read more...]
11 #Awesomesauce Mom Observations about the Care and Feeding of Teenage Boys
They will not, under any circumstances, take Women’s Multivitamins. I believe this is rooted in an unspoken fear of sprouting Fallopian Tubes. If you take them on a Very Special Pilgrimage to the home site of your favorite childhood book—say for example “Anne of Green Gables”—one of … [Read more...]
11 Thoughts About “Eleanor and Park”
1.The El DeBarge mention cracks me up. (Isn’t part-Korean Park supposed to look like Eldred himself?) It’s actually El’s 54th birthday today. Aren’t you wondering why I know that? 2. The book is set in 1986, the year I graduated. So, Rainbow Rowell kinda had me at 1986. Although…I did … [Read more...]
Back to School Musings from Anne of Green Gables, Little House on the Prairie, Rob Lowe, and Me
My sweet friend Heather recently dropped off her firstborn child at Smith College in Massachusetts. She’s a mess, of course, and deeply sentimental about this passage. Even though it’s a grand thing altogether that Sophie was accepted into such a magnificent university, and her future looks … [Read more...]
10 Thoughts on “The Fault in Our Stars”
1. The book is better than the movie. (As if anything else was possible.) 2. Hazel Grace and Augustus are stellar character names John Green had me at Hazel and Augustus. (Okay, so I’m a name freak.) I honestly think these honest, real-as-flesh-and-blood characters … [Read more...]