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travel

US Airways: Polite, Still Not Helpful

February 17, 2010

I had a long talk with a very nice woman from US Airways customer relations today. Cynthia offered me a Very Nice Apology, and empathized with my situation. She’s a mom too, and appreciates how scary and stressful it can be to have someone try to separate you from your kids. She said that having [...]

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Road to Nowhere

February 15, 2010

My dad’s ‘neighborhood’ is getting civilized. At the bottom of the rocky hill, still half a mile from the nearest paved road, they’ve put a street sign at the intersection between his private dirt road and this dry streambed.

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US Airways Hates Families and Kids

February 15, 2010

If you have kids, don’t fly on US Airways. We were on three flights of theirs yesterday as we slowly made our way from Boston to Tucson. Not once was I assigned a seat near my kids. Now, I confess that when I saw I had a boarding pass for seat 5D and my kids [...]

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Chicago!

October 17, 2009

I’m in Chicago for a long weekend celebrating a friend’s wedding. She’s one of my oldest and closest friends. In addition to spending time with her, I’m visiting Chicago for the first time. The city is beautiful. I had no idea there was so much striking architecture here. Just walking around the streets feels a [...]

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Home again

July 23, 2009

Back from a long week of rest. A week in a little lakeside cottage where it was always naptime. I learned to bake Really Good Bread there. I watched my kids chase ducks, and be chased by them. I read Lady Chatterly’s Lover again, and enjoyed it a lot more than I did when I [...]

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Home from the Wild

June 30, 2009

Lost: my voice Found: two deer ticks, one on Rio and one on me. Happily, the on site doctor let us know that deer ticks have to be attached to your body for at least two days before they can “do any mischief” (ie: transmit Lyme disease). So we all had a thorough “tickle check” [...]

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To the woods!

June 26, 2009

We’re off to the woods for a weekend of wild childhood. Enjoy yourselves and your loved ones – I’ll be back next week with (I’m sure) lots to blog about after our adventures.

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Detachment Parenting

May 18, 2009

this is what beaches look like to me., originally uploaded by moominmolly. Hello, blog. I have spent the past four days in California. I played in the water, I wandered around Berkeley. I went to a few funky bars and a very good party. I slept in late, and ate a good burrito. I saw [...]