Sunday afternoon (after I had my first (great!) experience with a spinning class) my brother and I took my niece to her swim club swim meet at the local community college pool. Not having been a swimmer growing up, this was a new experience for me. My niece, however, is already an old hand (as [...]
Archive for December, 2009
Swim meet
Posted in family, St. Louis on December 21, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Trimming the tree
Posted in family on December 18, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The children have been eager to decorate the tree ever since we picked it out at the Boy Scout lot down the street the other day. We put them off until tonight. After a hearty vegetarian chili dinner, we pull the boxes of decorations from the basement and set to work. There are the usual [...]
Walking to school
Posted in family, recollections, St. Louis on December 17, 2009 | 4 Comments »
One of the things I most look forward to when I am visiting my family is walking my nephew to school in the morning. It’s not a long walk, but there is something peaceful about being out with all of the other parents and kids and dogs converging on the neighborhood school in the frosty [...]
