Preschool Prep Parents with college-bound students, I feel your pain. Right now, you’re in frantic shopping mode so Baby Dumpling will have everything he needs in the dorm. You’ve purchased a laptop and a bedspread and the cutest little throw pillows, shampoo and soap and copy paper, a crockpot and a semester’s supply of healthy snacks, most of which you know he will ignore, … [Read more...]
Putting It All Together
By Sue Murphy Breathe, breathe. It’s only a few short weeks until the football season begins. I love watching football, especially when I don’t have a dog in the hunt, although I don’t care what team I’m watching, when some poor kicker stands facing a win-or-lose field goal, I have to leave the room. It’s excruciating. Poor guy, out there all alone. In golf, every … [Read more...]
Royal Wedding: Notes for Next Time
By Sue Murphy Once again, I was not invited to the royal wedding. Sadly, I was relegated to sitting on my couch watching the pageantry on TV wearing my Snoopy bathrobe, having tea and scones that I bought myself. I didn’t have to watch the show in my bathrobe, but it was 5:00 in the morning and I didn’t want to miss anything while I was in the … [Read more...]
Super Attendant
By Sue Murphy One good thing about my children living on separate coasts is that I have developed a cracker-jack airport ritual - optimum spot in the parking deck, biscuit at Chick-fil-A, tea from Starbucks. I schedule at least two hours for layovers in Atlanta and never, never take a carry-on that has to be hoisted into an overhead bin. Overhead bin space is … [Read more...]
Namaste Right Back At Ya
By Sue Murphy Darius Rucker’s new song says, “When was the last time you did something for the first time?” He probably meant something like motocross or bungee jumping, but it motivated me to try (drumroll, please) yoga. Not goat yoga. Apparently, some people find it relaxing or fulfilling or whatever to practice yoga with a hooved animal cavorting nearby, but that sounded … [Read more...]
