Merry Freakin’ Christmas
I have been scrolling through old holiday pics and generally mulling over things (with the focus of a sand flea) during this national...
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A New Website and a New Look for My Blog.
fedevecchi
Nov 14, 20223 min read
Jeff’s Somewhat Tragic Story
Where’s Jeff? This is a question I hear/read more often than I thought I might. For something, pardon, someONE who came onto the scene as...
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fedevecchi
Dec 31, 20214 min read
A Perfectly Boring Christmas
Not really boring, per se. Maybe routine is the word I am looking for. Hmm, now that I think of it getting a wicked sunburn while hanging...
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fedevecchi
Oct 29, 20215 min read
Revisit, Renew, Refresh
No, this is not a self-help post written by some all-knowing guru who has it all together and is about to give you advice that will open...
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fedevecchi
Dec 13, 20205 min read
Thankful for the Spaces Between the lines
I grew up a line walker. I followed the rules and tried to do the things I was supposed to do when I was supposed to do them. I colored...
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fedevecchi
Dec 29, 20192 min read
How to Successfully Put a Bad Year Behind You
The short answer is: You Can’t The slightly longer answer is: You can’t and you shouldn’t. You can no more do this than a mountain can...
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fedevecchi
Dec 19, 20195 min read
Bah… Humbled
I’m going to go out on a limb and guess that we have all had moments in our lives as parents when we have been completely humbled by...
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fedevecchi
Dec 10, 20195 min read
This Holiday Season I Am Asking You Not to Believe Your Eyes. Please.
What we see on the outside could be very different from what is going on inside. In his Biographia Literaria (1817), Samuel Taylor...
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fedevecchi
Nov 24, 20193 min read
A Simple Thanks
This is the time of year that the carousel we call life begins to pick up steam. Things get flashier. Schedules get packed with events...
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fedevecchi
Oct 26, 20197 min read
How to Build an Ostrich
I have made some interesting and challenging halloween costumes over the years, but one of our very favorites (by unanimous family vote)...
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fedevecchi
May 11, 20193 min read
Mother’s Day Snail
It’s Mother’s Day weekend and everywhere I turn, there are ads out for gadgets, flowers, candies…etc, that no Mom can do without. “What...
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fedevecchi
Apr 8, 20198 min read
A Picture is Worth 1,000 Words…unless it’s not. (vacation fails)
Ah…spring is upon us and so, too, the season of Spring Break vacations and picture sharing! Such beautiful images of bliss and perfection...
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fedevecchi
Jan 15, 20193 min read
Resolute
We are not even through January, and I am already on my way to breaking a couple of New Year’s resolutions, while the lawyer in me is...
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fedevecchi
Dec 22, 20184 min read
The Santa Conundrum
I have always found that the best way to get me to do something, is to tell me not to do it. And yes, the opposite also applies: tell me...
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fedevecchi
Dec 20, 20185 min read
A Spit and Glue Christmas
We have all had at least one of those Christmases… We are surrounded…nay bombarded… by images of perfect holiday bliss and cheer, but in...
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fedevecchi
Nov 26, 20183 min read
A Different Kind of Thanks for a Different Kind of Thanksgiving
As I knelt over the sunken bathtub in our new home this Thanksgiving morning, washing dishes while the espresso machine above me pumped...
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fedevecchi
May 13, 20185 min read
To Laugh or To Cry…that is the question this Mother’s Day.
I cried yesterday. It wasn’t when I smashed my finger on the banister as I rushed out of the house because I was late picking one kid up...
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fedevecchi
Sep 2, 20173 min read
World’s Worst Mom Ever
I am the world’s worst mom. No, really! I have it on good authority. It was hissed at me mere hours ago by one of my traumatized teenaged...
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fedevecchi
May 14, 20173 min read
One, Two, Buckle My Shoe…no really…Mamma needs help
Of course, given the fact that I am human and the proud mother of three young ones of various ages who often travel in different germ...
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fedevecchi
Jan 3, 20175 min read
The Story of Jeff
Share42 Pin Share42 Tweet Pin “You have to remember that you have a flighty seven-year-old little brother,” replied her mother. “I don’t...
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