Michelle Martin

February 6, 2019

Valentine’s Day

No one celebrates Valentine’s Day much as a religious holiday anymore. Most of the time, no one calls it St. Valentine’s Day at all.

January 23, 2019

Mooning around

Did you catch the super blood wolf moon the other night? We did. Teresa even stayed up late, looking out the window to check on the full moon starting at about 8:30 p.m.

January 9, 2019

Not by bread alone

It’s been a few years since I considered myself the best baker in our house.

December 20, 2018

Joyful noise

“The Little Drummer Boy” is usually a quiet song, almost a chant against a simple, steady beat. The reality of a little boy with a drum? Not so much.

December 5, 2018

Bah humbug. (Not really)

This is for all the Christmas grumps.

November 20, 2018

Gobble, gobble

Thanksgiving comes early this year, a full 10 days before Advent begins on Dec. 2 and more than a month before Christmas.

November 7, 2018

Gratitude

We’ve all felt it — that feeling of discontent when something we wanted, something we were looking forward to, doesn’t turn out like we wanted. Kids get disappointed all the time: It could be the Halloween costume that doesn’t look so great when you take it out of the package, or the iPad that is completely dead when you thought it was charging all night (note that charging cords work better when they are actually plugged in) or the gift from Santa that wasn’t the one you really wanted.

October 24, 2018

Happy Halloween

We used to have pumpkins for Halloween. Not actual carved pumpkin, though we had those too.

October 11, 2018

Snapshots

I cleaned off — and cleaned out — my desk the other week. It was time, or past time. We moved into our current office nearly five years ago, and the accumulated papers, obsolete equipment, books and magazines were enough to more than fill my wastebasket.

September 19, 2018

Last things

People — parents in particular — are always excited about first things. First smile, first tooth, first steps. First day of school. Even first loves and first jobs and first cars.
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