Out of the Moment

Get closer . Dear Photograph Tom Hussey reflections series

This is the most accurate, insightful essay on parenting I've ever seen.... Don't Carpe Diem by Glennon Melton

...and it was a fine, lovely, enchanting Christmas it was.  There's something about watching a toddler at Christmas that brings some of ...

To all of us, everywhere, a merry Christmas!

- visit a pumpkin patch - drain the water heater - get the air conditioner serviced (or should we do this in the spring?) - bake somethin...

In the days since the horrific bombing and mass shooting in Norway, I've been thinking a lot about how all of the baby gates, car seats,...

Obviously it's great that people read - no matter how they read or what they read.  Newspapers, magazines, books, ebooks.  Whatever.  Ya...

My sister and my dad spent last weekend volunteering in tornado-ravaged Joplin, MO, and we're so proud of them.  They helped clean up y...

We've amassed quite a library in C's 15 months.  Here are our favorites: This is My Tractor  - a touchy-feely book with an audio b...

In the past couple of weeks... ...I got the dreaded blue screen of death on my work computer, where I had foolishly saved a large project w...

This is old, but I'm sort of in love with it. from Fifty People, One Question on Vimeo  via this life i lead My heart breaks for t...

Way back in February we had some family out to celebrate C's first birthday.  We did a basic blue and white theme. blue and white pa...

Yesterday we went to the new Tivoli Village shopping center in LV, which has a limited number of businesses open right now.  It's such ...

This morning I got a flat tire.  I've never changed a tire, but hey, I'm a grown woman.  I can do it.  Except that I can't.  Stu...

This morning I took C back to the doctor (for a lingering ear infection).  As we sat in the sick child waiting area, a little girl came over...

In honor of Earth Day, here are my favorite Earth-friendly products.   A Slice of Organic Life by Shererazade Goldsmith.  I love this boo...

Okay, remember this ?  Here's the conclusion: I wonder if some part of him is sad for his adventure to have come to a close. Ano...

No, really.  Yesterday at Target my sister spied a dollar bill wadded up in a bush near the parking lot.  I think our reactions said a lot a...

I know, I know, flashmobs aren't exactly novel.  Still, I love 'em.  I love how the mobsters are having a good time and how the unsu...