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Summer’s Touchstone
This photo, taken a few happy weeks ago, is my touchstone for how I will define the summer of 2010. Yet, summer is not cooperating with me. Summer wants me to identify its memory with something more sinister. This was before my husband started crossing the continent on airplanes, and we started just missing each [...]
Full Story »Pratt’s Crash
While researching and interviewing bike riders for an article I wrote for Columbus Monthly, I discovered cyclists prefer to call their accidents “crashes.” Alex Pratt, procurement director for Pelotonia, crashed, splintered his collarbone and needed “Two Percocets just to feel normal.” So, he swore off cycling for good. Read my article in the August issue [...]
Full Story »No Soggy Greens: Pulverize Them
When I arrived home for my son’s surgery, I spotted an abundant kale bed, fringed with vibrant green New Zealand spinach in my neglected home garden. The sage was overflowing, and the oregano was just at the peak before going to seed. I neglected the garden again for four days – much more important babies [...]
Full Story »The Lovely Present
Diamonds, rubies and jewels are tough to come by at the lake, so when my birthday came last week, the boys had few gifts on-hand. One of the boys knew exactly what I wanted, and he slipped quietly out the door, and collected what was available. In the spirit of Charlotte Zolotow’s, Mr. Rabbit and [...]
Full Story »The Bones Came Together Nicely
He’s doing well today. But, each day will be a new day with its own set of challenges. Today, the surgery is behind us. The pain is blocked due to a nerve block, and that is currently on its way to wearing off. He just had his second Vicodin, and I’ve set my alarm for [...]
Full Story »Keeping Ahead of His Pain
We studied Friday’s cat scan of my son’s broken leg, clipped with a clothes pin to our floor lamp, all weekend. The cat scan reveals that the fracture line in the tibia runs straight down and splits the ankle.When the orthopedist delivered the news Friday, on my birthday, I found myself grasping the examining table, [...]
Full Story »Building A Swimming Pool
Hey, little brother. Get out of your bed, grab a shovel and a bathing suit. We’re building a swimming pool today.
Full Story »The Lake Summer Training Camp Is Over
The high school boys at the lake are getting pressure from coaches back home to come back for training! Instead, my husband, the Ironman, put them on a rigorous training schedule. Lifting weights, swimming, and a running course that includes 12 times up and down the hills. How perfect that they both had a training [...]
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