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My Book Clubs

Tonight, my book club celebrated its one-year anniversary. Fourteen of our 17 members gathered in an Asian fusion restaurant in our town to toast our 12 months of meetings and celebrate one another’s friendship. We also had a book swap; I took home Michael ...Read More

Veteran’s Day

On this Veteran’s Day, I’d like to share a number of blog posts and articles about veterans, their families, and their reality after their active service has ended. Our debt to them is immeasurable. War, Honor, and My Cousin Phil – From my mother-in-law! ...Read More

Annie

Today my husband and I took our kids to see “Annie” at the Citi Performing Arts Center (otherwise known as the Wang Theatre) in Boston. When I heard “Annie,” the musical I adored as a kid, was coming to town, I bought tickets for ...Read More

More Than Just a T-Shirt

In early 2007, I went to Mendoza, Argentina for a week to visit my friend, Megan, who had decamped to South America with her family for an adventure abroad. While I was looking forward to my first trip to South America, the opportunity to ...Read More

Sharing Books with My Kids

G was lying on the floor of her room at bedtime tonight, hot tears spilling down her face. It was past her bedtime, and I was being encouraging her to get into bed for some quite read-by-herself time before I turned out the lights. “Why are you ...Read More