I was in line at the Science Museum, trying to fetch our membership card out of my pocket while holding Eleanor in one arm. Madeline and Mason kept ducking beneath a velvet rope draped between two posts. A man on a stool behind the counter—not the one informing me that the special exhibit [...]
Our lawn, if you can call it that, was a mess this spring: patchy, weedy, strewn with fast food wrappers that had been blown by the traffic on our street to the clutches of our bushes, which have blossomed and faded already. The inground sprinkler system leaks. The walkway is cracked. The [...]
Yesterday we took the kids to their grandparents’ house for a barbecue and some time in the hot tub. My father-in-law grilled up the requisite burgers, sausages, and franks, and my mother-in-law laid out the table, and Nicole and I recklessly poured ourselves drinks we probably weren’t yet healthy enough to drink. As [...]
Two weeks ago I went to a book discussion group hosted by one of my colleagues. We had read Ian McEwan’s On Chesil Beach, a tidy novella about a husband and wife unable to consummate their marriage on their wedding night. Mostly, I liked the book, admired it, even. However, once the [...]
About
I read, write, teach, take photographs, brew beer, grow tomatoes, and make pretty good grilled cheese sandwiches. Want to know more?
Contact
Got something to say? Send me a message.
Search
Posting tweet...
Recent Archives
Recent Posts
©2004-2009 Rag & Bone Shop. Powered by WordPress and DePo Clean.
