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{ Monthly Archives } August 2007

Dinner Party

Last weekend, I was invited to a roof-top dinner party. The hosts encouraged me — several times — to bring my 6 year old daughter and, hesitatingly, I complied. My daughter usually handles adult situations for about 20 minutes, and then lapses into a half whine/half groan state, where I am compelled to give her [...]

‘th’

She’s got it. By George, I think she’s got it.
After what seemed like years of frowing fings on fursdays, she just started throwing things on thursdays. She was so excited she had to show me. ‘Look mom, look!”
And I watched as she put her tongue just under her upper teeth and blew out, and there [...]

pilot in training

Rada got to try out the controls on Poul’s plane.

sparkles

When I pick up my daughter from camp at the end of the day she barely resembles the child I said goodbye to in the morning. The morning child has its hair combed, face and hands washed and is wearing clean, albeit it stained, clothes. The afternoon child has tangled, matted hair, and a face [...]

Nuptials

Last weekend Rada and I attended the wedding of dear friends. It was her first one and it left a strong impression. I don’t think she was expecting it to be so theatrical. The ceremony took place on the lawn of a quaint farm north of Boston, with flower girls, ring boys, and pinkish-orangey rose [...]

some help from my friends

Ben showed me how to do this. Isn’t it cool? (thanks, Ben!)
What would I call it?? Well, its an individually annotated map of rugslife’s locations of interest.
You can do it, too, for your own neighborhood. Make sure you’ve got a google account (which is easy, just sign up, its free). Then go to google maps, go [...]

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