“No. 417 of 975 Bottles Produced,” the back label of the bottle proudly displays, and I am at once overwhelmed by the tremendous significance inherent in such a simple statement. […]

Titus, our two-year-old, had a meltdown last night. Unsure of what he was upset about, we read books with him, tickled him, and hugged he and his sister for the […]

Normally, Sunday night is Game of Thrones night, as we continue with friends and neighbors to plod our way through season one, hoping to complete an entire re-watch of the […]

Getting to Friday night was a heck of an accomplishment. After a week of teaching days and nights, meetings, covering for absent teachers, coaching, and all of the rest of […]

I don’t drink a lot of Spanish wine. Spain is one of the few western European countries I have never visited, sadly, and while I hope to remedy that, my […]

John Wesley, the Methodist minister, once said “If I die with more than ten dollars in my pocket, you should call me a liar.” I have always felt similarly, lived […]

Today was a success! My classes were engaged with Beowulf and our discussions about the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and the field trip to Beth El Synagogue was all […]

Yesterday Sonja and I took Titus and Zooey to the zoo for the morning, before returning home for lunch with our neighbors. In the kitchen, loading plates, Baron casually asked […]

Ever since last weekend, when I brutally shoved a cork down the neck of a 21-year-old bottle of Left Bank Bordeaux, I’ve been practicing with the cork puller, the one […]

I should have known from the frayed, ripped, tattered label that clung to the bottle, no longer by its own accord but instead with a piece of clear tape, that […]