Monthly Archives: May 2010

Sydney Minnerly, 8, is sitting at a picnic table near the river that runs behind the Lincoln Community School, carefully spelling out the words St.-John’s-wort on wooden Popsicle sticks. The sticks will label the seedlings that her second grade class … Continue reading →

Here’s an old joke: I’m not afraid of flying. It’s crashing that worries me. Last month I climbed into a flight suit, got strapped inside a Modular Egress Training Simulator (METS, for short), and lowered into a 100,000-gallon tank of water. Then … Continue reading →

David Arndt is very proud of his 8-year-old daughter, Jnana. “The other day she had the shortest recorded hit in baseball history: One inch,” he tells me, as we stand behind the backstop at the Little League field here in … Continue reading →

Last month, I had one of those moments when I saw my mother in my daughter. It wasn’t the shape of Grace’s face or the color of her eyes. There is little resemblance: My mother was blond and blue-eyed and … Continue reading →

When I was in Florida in February, I took my 82-year-old father to dinner. We went to the Ruth’s Chris Steakhouse in Coral Gables, and my dad ordered one of those Mini Cooper-sized slabs of dead steer. We joked that … Continue reading →