The first time I saw him he was sitting on the sun splashed dining room windowsill at my sister’s house in Canada. She had kept him and his brother for a month until they were old enough to get the vaccines needed to enter the US. She and her family called him “The Brave One.”…
Yearly Archives: 2009
The burden of being beautiful in Los Angeles
A few hours after arriving home from the hospital with baby Caroline a friend stopped by with dinner for us. She breezed down the hall to the kitchen where she placed the bag containing our supper on the counter, talking all the while about what she had purchased, hoping there would be something that pesco-vegetarian-Tim…
Caroline – this morning
“Hello Daddy. I’m calling to tell you about my morning. I washed my seashells outside in the grass and I finished my sloppy copy for my pop-up book! Then I drew lots of pictures. I’m having two playdates this afternoon. Grace is coming over to my house to play and I’m going to Julia’s for…
Katherine – yesterday five pm
Her big, striped, pink hat was tied around her chin in a pretty bow. A bow I had tied only minutes earlier. I wished she didn’t have that hat on because somehow it made her look all the more beautiful and at that moment her beautiful looks interfered with my fury at her inability to…
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These are my stories about surviving Hollywood, parenting two girls, and relocating to Las Vegas from Los Angeles, all while consuming a lot of chocolate. -
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