This girl.
This girl turned seven today. I'm not sure how it is possible, but it is. Once she was one, and now she is seven, and I don't know how we got from there...
When I was six years old, my family home caught fire. We escaped out an upstairs window, climbing onto the sundeck and then dropping what seemed an interminable distance to the ground below where...
The week of Hurricane Sandy, in numbers:
Days that I was more or less trapped in an apartment with two small children: 7
Days that it took before I cracked open the bourbon: < 1
Days it...
Yesterday, discount before the storm.
Yesterday, apoplectic on the brink of the storm.
Today, watching the storm recede. (The Freedom Tower, finally visible again in the distance. Emilia: "Mommy, the clouds are letting us...
I read the story of the nanny murders yesterday morning, at about 4:30am, just after I'd hopped in a town car to get to La Guardia for an early flight to Houston. I had,...
So, this happened.
TIME named this blog to its list of the 25 best blogs of 2012. Which, yes, I am totally bragging about, because I can. And because blogging for me has, this year,...
I'm not voting in the upcoming presidential election. There's a simple reason for that: I can't. I'm Canadian. I'm what is sometimes referred to as a 'foreign national.' I live in the United States,...
You'll find almost no pictures of me on this site. There's one on my About page, of course, and two or three of me speaking (although at least one of those is of my...
I make no secret of the fact that I love the camera on my iPhone. Nor do I make a secret of the fact that I love photo-editing apps, and that I regard off-phone...
