Michelle Martin

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.

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.
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