We arrived in California last Thursday famished. So we wasted no time in having a very late lunch at a California institution, the In -n- Out Burger where you can enjoy the freshest meat to come between two pieces of bread for $1.95. And that’s with cheese! Gorging on grilled beef and fried potatoes was…
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Full Circle
I grew up in a very tiny town that bordered Lake Ontario. We had frigid winters and less frigid summers. My town wasn’t a very wealthy community–family vacations were usually to places like the Adirondacks or Thousand Islands–but every now and then during winter school breaks, there was one kid whose parents had the foresight…
Birthday Letters
Dear Anna, You may not understand the Ted Hughes reference in the title here. If I was really clever, I’d write this entry in iambic pentameter. Even so, I can already picture you walking across a manicured college campus with a copy of The Bell Jar tucked in your arm, your blond hair tied in…
Miss Anna Goes to Washington
Last time Anna was in Washington, D.C., she was about the size of a grapefruit. I was six months pregnant, it was the second week of January, the war in Iraq was not quite a year old, and we were preparing a move to New Jersey. Since Anna never got a chance to experience the…
Livin’ La Vida Frida
Our museum weekend in Philadelphia last December was so much fun that we decided to do it again. The occasion? My 35th birthday. And what better way to celebrate midlife creeping up on you than to view paintings of a unibrowed bisexual Communist hugging monkeys and parrots? No, seriously…do you know of something better? What…