Last night Child Harbat decided to do a section cut drawing of a vet’s office, with a view into each room where a different animal was being treated. I loved that she had a specific architectural view in mind. Not…
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How to Go for a Hike With Children
Hey all you logical people who put the day before the month: it’s still 11/11/13! Now that’s out of the way, let’s talk about taking two small children to the park for a “hike”. Is it possible? Define “hike”. If…
Soccer Kids, Soccer Parents
It was inevitable that we sign up Child Harbat for soccer. She needed to get out of the house and exercise and I like the excuse to go to the park on Saturday morning and make fun of other parents. …
Fall is Here?
According to the calendar, it is fall. According to store displays, it’s just about Christmas. According to what people are wearing, it’s still the middle of summer, at least here in San Diego. Global climate change deniers, sorry, but it…
Climbing, aka Not Falling
It took me many years to realize my fear of heights is much more about seeing someone else fall than falling myself. Yes, I can hear the braying laughter of my family already, but it’s true. Maybe it’s popularity of…
Back to the Things That Matter
Periodically you have to shut off the glowing screens, break out from your patterns of eating, sleeping, working, cleaning, and remember the things that matter. For the last few days we’ve been lucky to have family from Portugal in town. …
Being Away From Your Child
Now I know how the border collie feels, standing in the field with the grass tickling its belly, knowing a sheep has escaped over the hill and beyond the copse of trees. I know how the eagle feels the first…
Capital City
Stop One: a place I’ve known for many years, a place I’ve lived, worked, loved, and finally left. A place of green lawns, piles of chiseled marble, navy blue suits, and papers. A city where the world comes to negotiate. A…
Posted in Events, Parenting Tagged with: air and space, carousel, CH, DC, hometown, identity, museums, smithsonian, washington
Out and About
It’s been a long overdue vacation for the family. First clue: we took a five-hour plane ride, about an hour too long for The Boy. Child Harbat was fine, even pulling a piece of luggage larger than her. She was…
Posted in Events, Parenting Tagged with: airplanes, CH, flying, flying with toddlers, number two, plane
Plein Air Yoga
When the heat of the day accumulates in the house, by dinnertime all the stuffiness and noise and grumpy tiredness simmers within until we’re all snapping at each other like alligators. Which is how I found myself in the front…
Posted in Parenting Tagged with: cartwheels, CH, children, flexibility, full lotus position, meditation, parenting, yoga
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