I have mixed feelings about 2009, which is probably why I haven’t blogged here since the beginning of last year. From most perspectives, 2009 was far better than 2008, the most reviled year I’ve experienced since the debacle that was 2001, and it brought some surprises I couldn’t have anticipated. I halted my fledgling consulting [...]
I’ve been hearing about the quaint little burg of New Hope for years, but something has always seemed to get in the way of my visiting. Not so this time. With no boss bellowing for me to return to a prison-like cube and five months to spend on the East Coast, I finally got to [...]
Home again. Well, home for the twins, anyway. I’m currently in my sister’s basement recovering from the nine-hour (including the hour wait in customs) ride back from Montreal, my neck still in a crick from my trapeze pratfall. I’m looking forward to some shut eye before diving into the pile of work awaiting me. We [...]
Damn if my sister didn’t come up with the best idea of the trip: dangling the carrot of zip-lining to keep the kids in line. With that in mind, I purposely planned that activity as the last of the trip (not to mention it’s out of town and thus requires driving) and have threatened penalties [...]
I would have said that there couldn’t be two more excited twiblings than those with me this morning, but I’d have to eat my words come Monday, when we finally go zip-lining. Today, however, was the second most anticipated event of the trip. After a quick (and complimentary!) breakfast at our hotel, we hopped aboard [...]
Having survived the eight-hour car ride with twin preteens, I woke this morning to a surprising sound: the alarm clock. I’d expected to awaken to the same bickering chatter that had prompted me, somewhere in the bleak darkness of the Adirondacks, to stop the car and threaten to turn it around all the way back [...]
I’ve hit Hershey and done Dorney, but it wasn’t until my family had lived in Pennsylvania for more than a decade that I’d even heard of Knoebels. (Hint to fellow outsiders: The K isn’t silent.) My sister swore that this was the best theme park she’d ever been to — no so much for the [...]
My cell phone is broken. A conspicous brown spot has appeared on the backseat of my once spotless six-month-old car. A fine film of sand covers the entire flooring surface of my home. There’s gum on my wall. But quiet has returned to my home. I’m not exactly sure how I feel about that. I [...]
Las Super Chicas are slowing down, their seemingly limitless energy giving way to sleeping in and returning home early to see what movie Aunt Jenn can surprise them with next. We started our day late, with breakfast at my old haunt, Jinky’s in Santa Monica, where we met up with the notorious Lenatic and her [...]
“Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.” This is the movie quote du jour that las chicas learned. We spent a rather relaxing day, compared to the previous ones. My shark-diving pal Patric hooked me up with his fishing buddy at the Aquarium of the Pacific, where we got [...]
