I am in here.
I have successfully brought my son home from college. Thank you, thank you, thank you — but he did all the work ❗ Peter is happily getting re-acquainted with his cat, and watching TV on his favorite TV. Now, I have to get used to having a college student for a son.
Just back from lunch with Donna at the Boulder Tea House, which is built in the style of Boulder’s sister city, Dushanbe. Peter’s finished just now with his third exam, which he says was easy. So, I am off to pick him up and feed him properly and do all sorts of motherly things…. That’s … Continue reading Lunch with Donna
Seen in McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: Kids’ Letters From Terrorist Camp.: Dear Mom and Dad, Why did you send me here? I’m the only American kid in the whole camp. I keep trying to explain to the other kids about how our family wants to destroy Western civilization from the inside just as much as they … Continue reading A letter from camp…
Bright and clear and -4° Fahrenheit. Snow on the ground from yesterday, not too thick. But then, we’re not in the mountains at a ski resort, so we are not hoping for great thicknesses of snow. There are no thickets or forests on the open prairie, by definition, so there is nowhere to hide from … Continue reading Morning. Boulder. Impossible temperatures.
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