Remember the car crash from Tuesday? I still do. What does Child Harbat remember from it? She had fun riding in the ambulance. And she got a free teddy bear. With all that fire and rescue personnel have to do…
Yearly Archives: 2013
Crash!
I got the text everyone would hate to get: “Call me. In a car accident near the park.” This was from my wife, yesterday morning as I was in a meeting presenting to a group. Because my wife was texting…
Posted in Events Tagged with: accident, ambulance, car crash, CH, emergency room, Ford Escape, hospital, insurance, number two, USAA
Viral Gastroenteritis
I’m now on my second week of a stomach bug that has waged war in my midsection. Often an illness follows a trajectory like a hurled ball—a quick buildup to a peak followed by a long descent. This stomach bug,…
Posted in Events, Parenting Tagged with: CH, chuck norris, flu, illness, number two, stomach bug, viral gastroenteritis
Getting’ Clippy With It
This is what you end up with when you play “ponies” with your five-year old daughter. I never figured out the rules of this game, but the outcome was fun just for the sake of fun. Everyone should get to…
A Classy Wine Review
Here at Handmade I try to stay upper crust, pinky-lifted, East Hampton marble-mouthed. In that spirit I present the first (and possibly last) wine review. Being poured today is a lovely Trader Joe’s Central Coast Sauvignon Blanc. Upon the first…
Ciabatta Sandwich Bread
I don’t know why I haven’t thought of this earlier: no-knead undead ciabatta dough poured into a loaf pan to make strong and holey sandwich bread. This weekend I was feeling lazy and uninspired to make the same wheat sandwich…
Life of a Boy
These are the things my son does that I love: When I pick him up from preschool he sees me from across the room, lets out a happy yip, and crawls to me at top speed, arms and legs…
New American Art
Every day I walk past an art gallery that has a selection of oil paintings of modern scenes: a city convenience store, a rowhouse, a highway gas station at dusk. It’s that last one that catches my eye every time…
The End of a Leafy Era
I can’t say I’m sad to see it go. The massive kale and collard green plants in our garden have gone to flower and having grown to umbrella size, survived a plague of grey dusty mites, weathered a blazing hot…
Thursday Grab Bag
In one week I’ve had two ridiculous injuries. First came the pulled groin muscle which I got from trying to climb over a baby gate while holding a glass of wine in each hand. Then I managed to pull a…
Posted in Uncategorized, Writing Tagged with: adventure, bay, border to border, injuries, land rover, san diego, water, writing
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