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  • Meghan Cox Gurdon: Dealing with debris no day at the beach

    Meghan Cox Gurdon

    Published: Wed, Apr 17, 2013

    "OK, we need more kitchen stuff ... " The oldest of three girls straightened up, put her hands on her hips and surveyed the scene. Where would she find kitchen stuff? Hmm. She wiggled her toes in the sand and considered. "This can be a dust mop," suggested her youngest sister, waving a frond...

  • Meghan Cox Gurdon: Angry driver triggers rude awakening

    Meghan Cox Gurdon

    Published: Sat, Apr 13, 2013

    The black BMW had a problem. It had an aggressive posture, that sense of agitation that a car exudes when its driver is raging behind glass at all the other jerks on the road, or maybe raging about some private distress, but in any case raging. It was midafternoon on River Road and not yet...

  • Meghan Cox Gurdon: An enchanted evening amid the cherry trees

    Meghan Cox Gurdon

    Published: Wed, Apr 10, 2013

    "Give me the stick, that is not a toy," a man was saying as he bore down on a girl in a pink dress who was toddling across an expanse of lawn with a cudgel in her hand. "Put it in the woods with the other sticks," the child's mother called from a nearby picnic table. Turning to see her...

  • Meghan Cox Gurdon: A chatelaine's sang-froid is tested when fridge goes on the fritz

    Meghan Cox Gurdon

    Published: Wed, Apr 3, 2013

    "Seriously? Oh, what a pain!" I had just opened the fridge, and everything was fine. Now, a moment later, the light was out. Maybe it was just that a bulb needed replacing, but the machine felt ominously quiet. I put a hand against the stainless steel door. It was not thrumming, as it should...

  • Meghan Cox Gurdon: On Easter Sunday, a sense of tradition and the passing of time

    Meghan Cox Gurdon

    Published: Sat, Mar 30, 2013

    Here we are again! The daffodils are in full bloom, the cherry trees have burst into clouds of pink, and the temperature is ticking up a few degrees every day. It is spring. Here we are again. Churches are packed with parishioners. Children are packed full of jelly beans and sugared...

  • Meghan Cox Gurdon: A leaky pipe brings black flowers of spring

    Meghan Cox Gurdon

    Published: Sat, Mar 23, 2013

    Ah, spring! The time when pretty little yellow and purple crocuses push through dead leaves and remind us that the ground won't always be so bleak and colorless; when pink blossoms froth on the spindly branches of even the tiniest cherry trees; when daffodils bob their heads bravely in the...

  • Meghan Cox Gurdon: A daughter visits from college and shows she's almost grown up

    Meghan Cox Gurdon

    Updated: Wed, Mar 20, 2013

    "Ughhh," said the middle daughter, when we woke her up for school. "Yughhh," groaned the teenage boy a few minutes later. It was a deeper, more mournful "yugh" than his usual. At breakfast, the children's heads were drooping into their cereal bowls. "Wow, what's the matter with you guys?"...

  • Meghan Cox Gurdon: The quiet thrill of buried treasure from Robert Louis Stevenson

    Meghan Cox Gurdon

    Published: Sat, Mar 16, 2013

    In our futuristic present, Google may be close to mapping the last remote bits of tundra, and physicists may have discovered the "God particle," but happily, the past continues to have the capacity to surprise and enchant. Here's a lovely thing. A long-lost essay by Robert Louis Stevenson...


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