With the burn of a new year upon us, many of us will be entering the unknown — the inside of a bike/ski/fitness shop. Most of you dread the thought of entering the entrails of a shop built of muscle, sweat and testosterone. We’ll admit it; the intimidation factor is high. But we encourage you […]
Author: Kandace Chapple
The perfect glass of milk
I poured the children identical, I mean identical, glasses of milk this morning. I did this without thinking, upending a jug of milk, emptying it, easily and swiftly in two glasses, half and half. I looked down to see how precisely I had done this and a little pride ran through me. I knew, given […]
Letter to my boys about Grandma
I wrote this May 20, 2010 to my boys, and just came across it again. I’ll share it here….. Dear Kendall and Nelson, Today it was pouring rain, 46 degrees out and bitter. It had rained all morning and yesterday we had Great Grandma Vera’s funeral service/burial. It’s terrible to say burial and I hope […]
ARA, OMG and WUR?
My sister and I have come up with a few text acronyms of our own lately. Here, we offer a twist on the old (new) favs: ARA: Accidentally Reply All. This is when an email has come in cc’d to about a million people, and we find the nerve to reply to the original message […]
Three birthdays, evenly distributed
It’s been a month of birthdays around here for my boys. Three birthdays in the one little month of October. And due to a complicated formula involving Physics, Mathematics and Psych, this has resulted in their mother (me) providing the two boys with TRIPLE the normal birthday haul. Our youngest, Nelson, has the first birthday […]