Author Archives: Jennifer

I dropped my son off at school this morning.  He was greeted by his headmistress with an enormous hug.  This happens every morning and I can’t think of a better gift to give this particular son than that kind of … Continue reading →

I spent the first several hours of today with my eyes shut.  The first of these hours was during an acupuncture appointment.  I have been suffering from tennis elbow, annoyingly without the tennis, and have tried using needles for the … Continue reading →

Thanksgiving week.  In America, Thanksgiving gives Christmas a run for its money.  People work Monday and Tuesday planning when they can take off on Wednesday, and the whole country shuts down Thursday and Friday.  Our sons’ schools were shut all … Continue reading →

I can hear our neighbor next door.  He is laughing out loud in his garden and his voice is deep and manly.  I remember a time when I would see him every day we were here, school or no school.  … Continue reading →

The room was purposefully sterile.  One window looking out onto the road, a small TV set high up in the corner wall with a fuzzy picture playing cartoons.  The bed took up most of the space – pulled white sheets, … Continue reading →

I’m feeling very pensive, a bit lost in my emotional world.  I feel sensitive, raw and a bit bitchy.  I wonder why today is so different in outlook than, say, yesterday.  Then I remember, like a long lost thought, confusion … Continue reading →

Every Wednesday I make seven packed lunches.  Four go to my own boys and three go to the homeless.  One of our schools runs a program whereby we donate lunches to a homeless shelter once a week, through our kids, … Continue reading →

It’s Sunday morning, 7:30 am.  My teenager and I are driving to his semi-final tennis match.  Thrilled he made it to the semi’s, both of us exacerbated by the hour.  What childless person decided it was okay to have the … Continue reading →

I have a teenager.  He’s wise and wonderful.  I wanted so desperately for him to feel excited and secure about becoming a teenager because this child is a deep thinker.  Husband is away therefore carrying the weight as a single … Continue reading →

And then there were four… Husband left tonight on a flight back to London.  It’s the first installment of our new ‘life plan for the year’ where he goes to London every so often for work.  He left with man-flu, … Continue reading →