Michelle Martin

August 8, 2018

Rushing the season

I love back-to-school time. Really, I do. I always have, even when I was the one going back to school. New notebooks, new pencils, full bottles of glue. Boxes of markers where every color worked. New teachers, new groups of classmates, new material to learn.

July 25, 2018

Learning to lose

Teresa joined her father and I for an after-dinner game of Parcheesi the other evening. For anyone not familiar, it’s kind of the forerunner of Trouble or Sorry. Players race to get their pieces out onto the board and around the course. The first one to get all four pieces safely home wins.

July 11, 2018

Like riding a bike

We’ve been remiss in teaching Teresa to ride a bike. She had a tricycle, which she liked to pedal down the sidewalk and even a block over and across the street to the playground. She had a tiny two-wheeler with training wheels, too.

June 20, 2018

That’s incredible

There’s something a little too ironic about going to a movie on hot June day to watch a family of cartoon superheroes battle to vanquish a new supervillain named “Screenslaver,” an evil genius who controls people — both normal and heroic — by hypnotizing them through the screens they watch.

June 6, 2018

Order out of chaos

In the beginning, Genesis says, when the earth was without form or shape, shrouded in darkness over the abyss and with a mighty wind sweeping over the waters, God made light.

May 23, 2018

Taking flight

I spent last weekend on a whirlwind trip to Boston, helping Caroline move into a room she’s subleasing in a student apartment to take on a summer internship.

May 9, 2018

First things

First Communion isn’t just one first thing. For the children who received the Body of Christ for the first time this month, including Teresa, the event meant doing lots of things for the first time.

April 25, 2018

Zoo day

I’ve long thought that the most interesting animals to watch in the zoo are the human visitors. That was definitely the case when I chaperoned Teresa’s second-grade class field trip to Brookfield Zoo in the middle of April.

April 11, 2018

Fear of happiness

It’s been a pretty good month for our family. Caroline is doing well in college, pursuing internships and staying involved with friends and organizations on campus. Frank is still participating in two sports, working and looking at colleges for when he graduates next year. Teresa will make her first Communion in May and is thrilled to have made a local swim team after trying out last month.

March 21, 2018

D-I-Y. Or not.

Once upon a time, a very long time ago, I thought I might be a crafty person. I was wrong.
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