Summer “Breakdown”

On our way home from the airport we went to Costco to load up on food to feed the troops of boys that traipse through the house. Walking in I noticed that Brevitt looked like a piggy with a band-aid stretched from his nostrils up to his eyebrows. “Really?” I asked. “I’m not with...

The Holiday Twitch

My father got his three daughters on skis at the early age of three and dragged us out to the icy Vermont slopes rain or shine. I thank him for giving me a sport that gives me an absolute feeling of freedom without the fear. But in this moment in time, as I watched my friend ski down the foreboding ski...

The High Activity Level of Boys

BREVITT AT TEN AND AT THREE AXEL AT EIGHT AND AT THREE TUCKER AT FIVE AND AT ONE I got a call from my neighbor the other day asking me what my mode of operation was with my boys to dispel their frenetic energy when they were home. We commiserated about how the energy of our boys has escalated with the...