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Turn Down the Music and Read: Let’s Go Crazy
It wasn’t until I was all the way back in Oakland at the end of July that the fog lifted enough for me to realize: the two books I bought to read at my dad’s bedside this summer were stories about...
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Dorm Room Decor
This post is sponsored by Minted.com. The time has finally come: our firstborn goes to college next week, 2,735 miles away from home. We are excited for her. The school she’s attending in the Keystone...
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My Late Summer 2016 Playlist
The upside of feeling down: with very little energy to talk to people, I’m taking refuge in some really good music this summer. Here are the songs and albums I’ve been playing a lot this summer, some...
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College Drop-off Perspective
Our daughter had one of the earliest start dates for college of anyone we knew. As of tomorrow she will have been there a week already. So for all my friends still dreading the drop-off, I thought I’d...
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Toothquake
Back in June I started a new vanity project – realigning my once-straight teeth that had, along with every every other g-d body part thanks to aging, started to rebel against their landlord. On went...
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What’s Your National Park Story?
Beautiful Bryce This month the National Park Service celebrates 100 years, and I wanted to send a little note of appreciation. Most of the park-going of my youth was the Adirondack park, the largest...
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Perfecting the Second Pancake
Have you ever heard the old adage that says parenting is like making pancakes? You should probably just throw the first one out and start with number two. It’s not the fault of the pancake batter, of...
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Turn Down the Music and Read: Die Young With Me
I’m not going to lie. When my neighborhood book pusher Kathleen from A Great Good Place for Books slipped me an advance copy of Die Young With Me: A Memoir by musician Rob Rufus, about his battle with...
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GenXers at Midlife – on Tue/Night
I love writing, and I love music, and I’m a middle aged Gen X’er. There was a period during which I thought could dump all those ingredients into one big pot and cook up a memoir. I envisioned it as a...
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My Didn’t Do List
The last couple of months or so have been spectacularly unproductive for me, for a couple of very valid reasons. I’m not beating myself up: I know it’s temporary, and that my get-up-and-go will...
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She’s Gone (To Diablo Valley, with Hall & Oates)
Anyone can have a relaxing vacation by flying off to Hawaii or the Caribbean. But I just took one that unfolded 22 minutes’ drive from my home (depending on traffic) in Diablo Valley, California. The...
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We Have To Do Better
I have a friend here in Oakland whom I know from blogging around the way. Brandi of Mama Knows It All is smart, hard-working, accomplished, a relentlessly positive person. She has a seven-year-old...
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Concert Review: Squeeze
The Band: Squeeze, Sept 28 2016. There is no one who was alive in the ‘80s who doesn’t know the lyrics to “Tempted” and “Black Coffee in Bed” by the British rock band led lo these many years by Chris...
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Litquake 2016
Next week is the High Holy Holidays for writers in the Bay Area: San Francisco’s big annual literary festival Litquake, which culminates in the highbrow-bar-crawl-through-low-places known as Lit Crawl....
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Losing My Edge
The other day there were some frozen carrots defrosting on our kitchen countertop. The problem is, these were not of the freezer-section-bag-of-carrots variety. They were fresh carrots, normally stored...
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The Head and the Heart, As Reviewed By a Millennial
I feel like I’ve been picking on the Millennials lately, so I thought for a change I’d put myself in their shoes and write a concert review from their point of view. The Recent Head and the Heart Show,...
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The Thunder Beneath Us Mixtape
Author Nicole Blades is another member of my Mom2.0 mafia, a graceful and focused friend whose dedication to her writing is an inspiration to me. I am so pleased to share her author mixtape on the cusp...
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Things I Learned at Parents Weekend
As a first-time parent of a college student, I have learned many new lessons this fall. Parent’s Weekend last month was particularly eye opening, so I thought I’d share my newly acquired knowledge so...
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Nods to Nasty Women
A photo posted by caryn (@lettheloverbee) on Oct 20, 2016 at 8:32am PDT Last week in my exercise class, the older lady next to me slid easily into a split that would have been the envy of any high...
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Easy Halloween Costumes for Parents of College Kids
Just because the kids aren’t underfoot anymore doesn’t mean you can’t get in on the Halloween fun this year! As a parent of a child in college, there are loads of frightening disguises for you to...
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