Bye Bye Blue Booties

About a month after Andrew started at the Goddard daycare they began requiring parents to wear blue booties over their shoes before they entered the infant room – the same kind of booties doctors and nurses wear in the hospital.
Now, there had always been a ‘please wear your blue booties’ sign but in that first month I never saw another parent [...]

Coming of Age With Virgins

Perhaps catching myself humming ‘My Hair Had a Party Last Night’ by Trout Fishing in America (without my 3-year-old in the car) sparked the need.
Maybe the constant exposure to great new alternative music on satellite radio tuned me up.
Or, quite possibly, the fact that my last concert involved Lisa Loeb in a coffee house and [...]