So... I feel like writing a blog post, but my mind is drawing a blank (something it's been doing quite frequently of late). This is where I turn to you, my few but faithful readers.Ask me something. Anything. It's your chance to find out some bit of information you've...

It's been an eventful week around here. Two visits to hospitals, one surgery, one broken arm, five presentations, one business trip, one head cold (mine)... too much.I want to go back to uneventful.

“Bridge or ferry?” he asks me, as we prepare to leave the Island. “Ferry,” I say. “The bridge disappoints me with its high walls and lack of a good view of the ocean. I love ferries.”“I like the way you think,” he grins. “Ferry it is.”After a hearty farmhouse...

And I hope that what I surmised earlier ends up being true - that the change in personality in the last year and a half - from precocious to tentative, from outgoing to shy, from bold to inclined toward anxiety - can at least partially be attributed to the reduced...

Maddie had minor surgery this morning (tubes in her ears), and only a couple of hours later she is up and about and feeling fine (though the sounds she's now hearing are surprising her in their intensity). The same little girl who had a major panic attack (and took a...

The costumes - handmade by mom...Happy Pumpkin Man (and friend)...Trick-or-treating with the cousins...

When she is sixteen years old, rushing off to a halloween party with her friends and no longer interested in trick-or-treating with Mom, I want to remember six-year-old Maddie, blowing out the candle in the jack-o-lantern, turning off the kitchen light (even though I...

Nikki and Julie to Maddie before heading to a movie: “Of COURSE we don’t buy candy at the movie theatre. It’s way too expensive. Instead we go to Bulk Barn to stock up on cheap candy and then we bring a big purse along so we can stuff it with our own snacks. When...