Family

Flashback Friday — Happy Summer!

My husband and daughter are criminals. In honor of the summer solstice, I give you this evidence, which surely belongs in a police locker: The two of them, illegally soaking their feet in a public fountain in Boston. It was 2009, and we’d traveled by ferry there from Provincetown during one of our annual Cape … Continue reading →

Getting to know me

Yesterday, some folks from Goose Creek, NC, piled into their car for the first leg of their trip to New York. A couple from Kennesaw, GA, made copies of old family photos and started their trip north today. Several others from various points of the map are also putting other of life’s obligations on hold … Continue reading →

Wordless Wednesday — Double Vision

A girl, and her dad

I spend a lot of time razzing Basil, but the truth is, Catherine couldn’t have gotten much luckier in the father department. Oh, it’s true she’s had him wrapped around her little finger from the get-go, but he is a more-than-willing accomplice. He doted on her from the time she was small. Well, after I … Continue reading →

The Graduate

Congratulations to my godson, Dominic, who today graduates from high school and takes that step over the threshold and into the rest of his life. It’s just yesterday that he was in diapers (and so chunky that we joked he looked like Buddha). As you would expect, he is today all grown up. I just … Continue reading →

Flashback Friday — Here’s lookin’ at you, Mom

Don’t you love this photo? It’s my mom, Ginger Salvatore. I’m not sure what year this was taken  or why she’s posing, but I see a certain movie-star quality to this shot that she will surely deny. (And I can see why her wedding gown had an 18-inch waistline.) This photo was taken at her … Continue reading →

Livin’ the dream

Color me suspicious. I just came home from a long day of pushing computer keys, on my way to band practice, pretty much expecting that Catherine would have long forgotten my morning plea to start the load of towels and run them through the drier. You can imagine my shock, then, to find the towels … Continue reading →

Birthday wishes

Happy Birthday to my mother-in-law, Dena. A lady never tells her age, so I won’t divulge it here, but I will share this photo of her as a teenager, which never fails to make me smile. I don’t know exactly how old she is here (Basil thinks she may be 16 or 17, as old … Continue reading →

At our expense

It’s happening. Junior year isn’t quite over and already we’re hurtling into senior year. Friday’s email stream brought a note from the Greenwich High activities lady: Catherine has three weeks to schedule her senior portrait, which will be taken during one of two weeks over the summer. EEK! We were just walking her to the … Continue reading →

Flashback Friday — Let the Summer Fun Begin

It remains damp and chilly here in the Northeast despite a weather tease earlier this week that had us thinking about installing the window air conditioner in Catherine’s bedroom upstairs. It rained overnight, and the skies remain threatening. In fact, it looks like a washout until Memorial Day on Monday. Still, I’m trying to look … Continue reading →