Michelle Martin

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.

September 5, 2018

Family weekend

When my husband, Teresa and I arrived in Caroline’s city, ready to help her move from one apartment (summer sublet) to another (first off-campus housing), she called down the hall to her roommates, “Guys, my family’s here!”

August 22, 2018

Hospitality

Frank and I spent time last week visiting two universities in another city. It was a chance for us to spend a little time together before he starts his senior year of high school, as well as a chance to talk about what he’s looking for in a college, where he thinks he might want to go and what he wants to study.

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.
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