Author Archives: heather

This is overdue, but starting the holiday season began with our first trip to Seymour in two years. Here are our highlights from the trip, which concluded with a sprinter spontaneous stopover in DCL for a snowy dinner with Dad and Mary Ellen at Uno. I was also thankful to have our new, big-enough carContinue reading “Thankful in Indiana”

6 drop offs/pick ups for school 3 hours engaged in said school runs 1 car dead 2 ubers ordered 6 hours waiting in the Glen Echo parking lot for the car to be revived 1 towtruck called 2 minutes needed to tow the car up the hill and across the street to the service stationContinue reading “Monday: My Day by the Numbers”

Right near Santa Cruz is a long stretch of beach in a curved moon bay. It is practically our very own, both by tradition (Mom and Doug have rented the house many times these past few years, even leaving beach towels behind to hold our place) and by dearth of visitors. We can sit onContinue reading “Aptos, The People”

This is the first day in the world, or any world I know, without Auntie Carol. I wouldn’t think I could even write something about this except that Rory and Mom both posted something on Facebook yesterday with the news, and if they can say something, so can I. I think the hesitation is thatContinue reading “Farewell Auntie Carol”

The rocks are not bright like a cherry tomato or deep red like a margherita pizza sauce, but more orange-red like a robin’s breast caught in a glow of sunlight. One thing I didn’t expect in Arizona or Sedona was green. Along the Oak Creek Valley, it’s all sycamores and pines and oak trees braidingContinue reading “Seeing Sedona”

1. Tatum is brave. She’s doing things with her spirit that grown adults are too scared to do: introspect, reflect, discuss, own, transform. 2. She creates. She has long been known to be super talented at drawing and painting. She painted a gorgeous Georgia O’Keefe-inspired calla lily for Call this week. Her newest preferred artContinue reading “Fourteen reasons to love Tatum”