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Sunrise on Oahu’s North Shore. The Incredible Sweetness of Being, Part Nine I unplugged for this vacation. My husband, Rich, and I flew to Hawaii to visit my daughter, Elaine, her husband, Rob, their boys, Cadence and Sawyer, and Little Miss Kidney Bean, due to be born in September. They’re stationed at Pearl Harbor, for now, […]
Cadence and the Army Men. The Epic Next to the Coffee Table “Lala, I’ll be the green guys,” Cadence said, as we hunkered down on the living room floor. “You can be the brown guys. And here: You can have my Green Lantern.” He offered me a plastic toy that stood in Gulliveresque proportion to […]
Barely. Barely is Enough. Brownies, Cocoa, and Sufficiency Lost in the brownie-baking ritual, I greased a pair of well-loved pans, fitted a paddle to my red Kitchenaid stand mixer, measured sugar into its bowl. As the butter and sugar whirled and spun to spectral creaminess, I reached for the cocoa box. Its near-weightlessness stunned me. […]
Cadence and Me. July, 2011. Ready? Our grandson comes early this morning to visit us. I’m waiting, waiting for his dad to drop him off. All I know is Friday morning. [It’s complicated, our family pruned and grafted: Cadence lives in Hawaii with his mommy, Rob-Daddy, and little brother. His father lives, as we do, […]
Cadence Spots a Ladybug The Ladybug Lounge “Lala,” my grandson Cadence says. “I see a beetle in the window.” I’m sitting on the loveseat, sipping water and sorting grocery coupons. Movement at the window has drawn his eye away from the colossal battle he’s staging between army men, Lego guys, a T. Rex and a […]
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