I’m leaving in a few minutes to head down to San Jose with two of my girls to see Madonna! And yes, I’m excited and no, I’m not ashamed.

So we had a lot of potential plans we were mulling over for this past Memorial weekend — Wine Camp, visiting family in Nevada City, visiting friends in Seattle — but we decided to vacation at home, in San Francisco. Our new sofa was arriving, (!!! Yes, post about that coming soon!!!) and the idea […]

Most nights this is how Thor decompresses when we first get home from work. He sits down at the piano and starts belting out some Elvis Costello, Elton John, Beatles. Quinn usually joins him on one of the many supporting instruments — the strum stick (as seen above and which Quinn refers to as the […]

Me: Who’s your best friend at school?
Quinn: Sofia.
Me: Really? why?
Q: Because she helps me with my pants.

Everyone who’s had or taken care of a child in the past 10 years knows the book “Guess How Much I Love You” and the universal “I love you big like…” game.
My line to Quinn is usually “I love you big like the universe times infinity”. And his line to me is usually “I love […]

This morning the parents were invited to a morning meeting in Quinn’s class at school. The meeting opened with the teacher and kids singing a cute song about animals doing their laundry. In the middle of the song Quinn turned to me and said “But animals not wear any clothes.”

I took Quinn for a haircut this week. He loves to get his haircut. I don’t love to get his haircut. I like his hair a little longer. But the poor kid’s been sweeping his bangs out of his eyes so much it’s become a tic. Plus we don’t get through a day without someone […]

I was thinking the other day about how a year and a half ago or so when I was doing freelance consulting from my house in exurbia and only working two and a half to three days a week, I used to shut down my computer on Thursday nights and pretty much, with a few […]