Well, my phone was officially pronounced dead by one of the Apple geniuses on Wednesday. Amazingly, I only lost some pictures, a little text history, and some apps in the transfer to a different phone. I don’t know how they did it, but I think that’s why they call them geniuses. Among the pictures that…
Yesterday I decided it might be fun to take the girls to the nearby Fruit and Berry Patch. It probably would have been best if this idea had occurred to me either first thing in the morning or maybe on an altogether cooler day, but sometimes spontaneity works well enough. And, now that we’re forced…
The Monday after vacation is always a hard one. I think maybe all beach trips should require a minimum two week stay. If they say it takes twenty-one days to make or break a habit, it surely takes fourteen days to fully relax… Since the reality, though, is that it is a Monday, and since…
There are few places where I have more good memories of time spent with my dad than here at Hilton Head. This was his beloved retreat from the real world, and he was more relaxed and perhaps more himself here than anywhere. I’m not sure that I’ll ever grasp how stressful his job was at…