While I was listening to all the news coverage of the death of Senator Ted Kennedy, I began idly googling the Kennedy family and was drawn to the women, especially Rosemary Kennedy. She was different, troubled, but most likely not retarded as has been printed repeatedly.  Some reports speculated that she probably had an average [...]

      ”Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of, herself.  She is not to be judged by any external standard of resemblance.  She is a veil, rather than a mirror.  She has flowers that no forests know of, birds that no woodland possesses.  She makes and unmakes many worlds and can draw [...]

This morning after an appointment in Brooklyn Heights, My Kid and I ran into some neighbors who had just been to the dentist.  They were on their way to Greenwich Village to see Click Clack Moo at the Lucille Lortel theater on Christopher Street.  Since it was free with tickets distributed an hour before curtain, we went [...]

There’s this thing that is done in Montana.  Floating on a river in a rubber raft.  It’s fun.  It’s done with friends.  It’s relaxing.  It’s making me really sad that we are going back to New York tomorrow.  Missoula “A River Runs Through It” Montana really is a beautiful place!  I will miss it.

I stopped by the registrar’s office on campus today and orderd copies of my transcripts.  I intend to apply to be a substitute teacher for the New York City public schools.  My Kid is dubious.

This morning My Kid and The Cousins completed their two week course of swimming lessons at Splash Montana.  We’ve been here that long. Right now The Best Aunt in the World and the Grandfather are with My Kid and Boy Cousin fishing at Frenchtown Pond. Yesterday the Grandparents took the cousins to the Lee Metcalf [...]

Ever since were at the fair and I looked down and saw a white dot on my daughters hair, which was probably pollen, I have been paranoid–to the point of waking up in the middle of each night– worried that we have lice (see April 11, 2009). I finally drove to the drugstore for Pantene [...]

This morning’s top story in the Missoulian, our local daily newspaper; “Grizzly, cub killed in Glacier Park“.             By Michael Jamison of the Missoulian: WEST GLACIER – “The old grizzly sow was rumbling straight toward a campground full of hikers, chubby cubs laboring along behind, when two rangers simultaneously pulled their triggers. [...]

My dad really wanted to take the grandkids to the Lee Metcalf National Wildlife Refuge up the Bitterroot not far from Missoula.  It’s a beautiful spot but I’m afraid the kids weren’t impressed.  What visible wildlife there was were birds and ducks.  It was hot.  The grass was dry. Splash Montana rounded out the afternoon [...]

I had a lovely lunch with one of my oldest friends at Scotty’s Table today.  Below the fire escape of the Wilma Theatre was not a quality destination when I lived in this town.     Over my mother’s lasagne we had a family meetingabout potential destinations for my parent’s 50th Anniversary next year.  We’ve [...]