Category: <span>Thoughts and Musings</span>

I have a confession to make: I’m taking the easy way out with today’s post. I’m stealing some memories from my France 2006 travel journal rather than writing brand new…

Thoughts and Musings Wanderings and Travel

And now for something completely different.  A series of 100-word “postcards” from my weekend solo trip to New York City. I don’t have a sippy cup.  I’m out of wipes. …

Thoughts and Musings

“‘I’m glad it’s wick!’ she cried out in her whisper.  ‘I want them all to be wick.  Let us go round the garden and count how many wick ones there…

Thoughts and Musings Wanderings and Travel

Big Friend, Little Friend, and I celebrated the Fourth in a typically American way: eating traditional Iranian sandwiches.  Actually, for a couple of hours this morning, I was planning on…

Thoughts and Musings

“Mama, mama, mama, mama, mama!”  The pitifully trilled words tripped over themselves tumbling down stairs and pulled me away from writing before a full sentence had a chance to click…

Thoughts and Musings

The perfect guy gift list, according to Phil Dunphy of ABC’s hit comedy Modern Family: “a robot dog, night-vision goggles, speakers that look like rocks, a GPS watch, bug vacuum, or…

Thoughts and Musings