jdettmannJan 12, 20173 min readTWELVE Days of Christmas? Not On My WatchProper homemade gingerbread house that I had absolutely nothing to do with. Grandmothers are where it’s at. Good New Year to you, dear...
jdettmannAug 11, 20163 min readOlympics Para SiempreWe are disgraceful: this was one of only two photos we have of anyone in this family doing anything even vaguely athletic, while also not...
jdettmannAug 2, 20164 min readRUN NOW!Baffling contraption As we are wont to do from time to time, H and I have started a small health kick. It’s not a high kick. We’re not...
jdettmannJul 20, 20164 min readIn The End, It Was The Odd Socks That Finished Her OffGarnet searching for his socks. We’ve been on a holiday. A driving holiday, and while I’ll try to write about that soon, and tell you all...
jdettmannNov 23, 20154 min readSome Enchanted EveningObviously this is not the beach we went to in this story. This is Waikiki beach, where I have also been grumpy in the recent past. I’m...
jdettmannOct 19, 20154 min readA Very Peter Pan BirthdayThree weeks out she started saying, ‘I don’t want to hear it’s anyone else’s birthday before mine.’ Now we’re down to four days and she...
jdettmannApr 15, 20152 min readHow Funny? Pants-Off FunnyBenny Hill is a cultural reference that is on its last legs, I’d say. I only recall it vaguely from my childhood, mostly because it...
jdettmannNov 16, 20113 min readThe Noise Was Coming From Inside The HouseLast night H and I, for the first time in months, left the house together, at night, without May Blossom. When she was littler we used to...