by robert | Jun 7, 2006 | Article, Santa Fe Reporter
In terms of sounding intelligent or creative, every kid gets lucky once in a while. We were at Lala’s sister Emily’s house when London had just started speaking, and a group of us gathered in the kitchen, desperately waiting for the wine to be uncorked. Someone asked...
by robert | May 3, 2006 | Article
Twice a week, I drive Poppy to a horse farm to ride a Welsh pony named Tapdance. From a distance it all seems very quaint: the bucolic smell of hay and alfalfa, farm hands mucking stalls, Poppy cantering around an arena softened by the grindings of recycled tennis...
by robert | Apr 5, 2006 | Article
We are lucky to have, in our neighborhood, a park right down the street. It’s not the most exciting park in town, and the play structure is covered with sexually explicit graffiti scrawled by someone who has obviously never studied anatomy; however, it’s still a place...
by robert | Mar 2, 2006 | Article
Last year London got a pretty terrific cold. He offered the typical items you see on the kiddie illness menu: high fever, annoying congestion, mucous in an orange demiglaze. I drove to Walgreen’s and purchased the most child-friendly tasting goo that might actually...
by robert | Feb 5, 2006 | Article
The day before we were flying back East for the holidays, Lala and I were scrambling to pack and cover all the domestic bases needed for us to get away. Luckily we don’t believe in indoor plants or I should say we don’t believe in the merciless killing of indoor...
by robert | Jan 4, 2006 | Article
Last week, I left work in the middle of the day to pick London up at preschool. I arrived during lunchtime and sat next to him in a chair the size of a Webster’s dictionary. While he chomped his apple, London offered introductions to the paddock of his pint-sized...
