by Robin | Jun 25, 2018 | Memoir, Mom stuff, Parenting, Personal, Uncategorized
I couldn’t take my eyes off of him. His skin was the color of summer and youth, beautiful and smooth and the stuff of a 1970-something Coppertone ad, minus a black Boykin Spaniel. This wasn’t his first day at the pool. He couldn’t have been...
by Robin | Jul 20, 2011 | 20th Anniversary Trip, Advice, Antigua, Hermitage Bay, Therapon
More than any other season, Summer makes me feel young. Maybe it’s nostalgic camp memories, or our tradition of family vacation, or great weather allowing more time outdoors, but Summer invites the kid in all of us to come out and play. I...
by Robin | Jul 29, 2010 | Faith, Family, Favorite things, Field Trip, Kids, Mom stuff, Parenting, Science, Southern, y'all, Teens & Tweens, Weather
"Come on, Mom, we're going on a field trip." It was after 11:00 and I had just gotten up from bed to start the laundry load forgotten earlier, aggravated at myself but knowing she needed "that" shirt and "those" shorts by 7:00 a.m....
by Robin | Jun 11, 2010 | Family, Humor, Kids, Mom stuff, Parenting, Personal, Photos, Poetry, Teens & Tweens
The Malodorous Plight of Mother and Son "The foulest stench is in the airThe funk of forty thousand years*"I hold my breath, near despairWicked boys, give way to cheers.Confined within too small a spacePutrid, vile, scent-clouds descendI cover nose,...
by Robin | May 27, 2010 | Uncategorized
IntoxicatingScent, Summer's golden prophetNectar of fairies. {Click the photograph for another perfect capture of a honeysuckle vine.}Thanks to Barbara (Xerraire) who graciously granted me permission to use her delicious honeysuckle photograph. She...