Rox and Roll

Reminder: Rox and Roll is now on Typepad

2009-01-12T05:47:41Z

Please visit my new web site, http://www.roxandroll.com. At that site, you'll find the same old Rox and Roll blog, just powered by the more feature-rich Typepad blogging platform at my very own URL. Enjoy!

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Putting 2008 -- and my Vox blog -- in the rearview mirror

2008-12-31T21:09:46Z

I think that when I'm 90 -- and since my great-grandmothers lived to nearly a hundred, I'm betting I'll make it that long -- I'll look back on this year as one of the craziest years of my life. 2008 started with our whole lives up in the air, and...

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Now we're in Vermont!

2008-12-27T03:06:30Z

Christmas Eve and Christmas Day did indeed happen in Vermont for our family! We are so happy to be here. Here's how we finally arrived: The day before Christmas Eve, we left California at 6... no, make that 8:40 pm, for Houston. Instead of ou...

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Saga after saga

2008-12-23T23:56:49Z

In addition to our travel woes, I had quite a scare yesterday; I left my purse hanging on the back of a chair in a Starbucks in East Palo Alto. I have never in my life lost a wallet or left my purse anywhere before. To leave it in EPA -- not the...

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When you can't get there from here

2008-12-22T18:10:57Z

Another late night, another new set of plans to arrive at the North Pole our barn-red cottage in Vermont in time for Christmas Eve: Instead of a Christmas Eve departure landing us in Vermont in the wee hours of Christmas Day, the current plan is ...

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When life hands you lemons, make peppermint hot chocolate

2008-12-22T00:09:25Z

This morning, the Guv and I woke up at 4:30 a.m., ostensibly to load the car and hustle the kids out the door at 5 am for the airport. I showered quickly, dressed, packed up a few last things... and at 4:47 a.m. had the genius idea to check the f...

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Dash 2: Parents 0

2008-12-21T00:13:19Z

In the car leaving Fresh Choice for home: Dash: "Mama, I want milk." Mama: "Whoops! Dash, I forgot to bring a milk sippy... We'll be home in a few minutes and get some then, okay?" Dash: "Mama, I'm going to Doot Doot you." *** In the car in ...

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Remembering the reason for the season

2008-12-18T21:27:11Z

Dash and I stopped in Whole Foods to pick up a case of soy milk drink boxes for our upcoming travel. The store didn't have his preferred flavor ("Very Vanilla") in stock, but they did have buckets of Feed 100 bags for $25. I've been looking for ...

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The post in which Santa and Mrs. Claus are not on the same page

2008-12-18T17:13:58Z

Update: Shipping our two boxes was going to cost $170! So we're checking the luggage full of "stuff" after all. And the Guv reminded me to stop stressing out about stuff like this. Then I reminded him to stop stressing me out about stuff like t...

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Buying snowboots in California, and missing NJ just a little

2008-12-16T01:17:17Z

This afternoon, Dash and I picked up Petunia from school. After they spent their usual 45 minutes chasing their friends (brothers in 3rd and 1st grades) in circles around the redwood trees, I informed them that we were going out to buy snowboots...

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