Lexington has a lot of nice things. I’m saying that right up front so you won’t think I’m a Yankee snot, or an elitist Hubbard, Ohioan. I love oodles and oodles of things here. Downtown Lexington has a thing – I can’t really put my finger on it – but it has something to do […]
A Picture Perfect Christmas
Here we go again. It’s time for the annual Fitzpatrick Family Christmas Card Picture. We’ve been including a photo in our Christmas cards since the year we had a 4-year-old and an 8-week-old with three different forms of eczema, neonatal acne, elephant skin, crossed eyes and bruised lumps on his head from a difficult, […]
Deck the Halls With Growls and Stalling
I’ve tried to instill some old-fashioned values in this house, I really have. At the risk of appearing Republican, I’ve led Christmas-cookie-baking afternoons, made dozens of gingerbread houses, snuck Bing Crosby onto the iTunes, and basically jumped headfirst into the pile of corn. My kids stood by in their black t-shirts and backward baseball […]
Football Poolishness
I have a list of things to do if I’m ever going to be the perfect person. Not that I’m close enough to actually have that goal in my sights or anything, but I have a list of six or seven hundred things I’d have to change about myself to be able to say […]
The Wheels on the Bus Go Round and @#$*! Round
For those of you who go on bus trips with some regularity, this won’t be funny. This will be your life. However, for anyone who has watched with fascination people getting off a big bus, blinking and squinting, dragging a sleeping leg behind them, and wondered what could compel someone to board such a […]
Live From New York – It’s the Bandies!
As you read this (who is reading this anyway? Barbara, is that you? Chuck? Molly? Debby? Are you there?) I’m in New York with the Dunbar Band traipsing around the Big Apple with my mother-in-law and a bunch of other bandies. We’ve been doing touristy things since we left Lexington on Monday and rode […]