The Abandoned One Schedules a Visit

Finally, tickets have been booked for the Abandoned One to visit. It’s been a long process.  Abandoned has a full social and musical life, and only two weeks vacation, so he finds little time for travel.  He’s also gotten a bad case of the travel-time distortion syndrome that afflicts so many people who live in [...]

News from the Abandoned One

For those of you who are wondering:  The Abandoned One is doing just fine. At least I assume he is, judging by the absence of SOS calls.  Or of any calls for that matter. It’s spring in New York, and it seems there’s plenty to do to keep a free-as-a-bird, unencumbered-by-parents guy busy. He’s playing [...]

Homeward Bound?

Dateline: Wytheville, Va.  Halfway between home (old) and home (new). Yesterday we relaxed.  With 15 inches of snow on the ground, it was good to wake up in a hotel bed and hear the sound of plows clearing the parking lot.  Over omelets cooked by someone else, we chortled at not having to dig out [...]

(Am I) The Worst Mother in the World?

The summer before my only child, Soon-to-be-Abandoned, went to college, I went into mourning.  Stunned by its depth, I struggled to find ways to hold on to my son.  Mr. NYer and I cagily planned the perfect summer vacation that year, a five-day rafting trip down the Colorado River in Cataract Canyon, guaranteed to provide [...]