Return to Washington Examiner Homepage
May 24, 2013 | 06:16 PM
meghan cox
Washington D.C. weather

Contributions

  • 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...

  • Meghan Cox Gurdon: Flying in America: Indignities in the name of security

    Meghan Cox Gurdon

    Published: Wed, Mar 13, 2013

    "If you're wearing a belt, I highly recommend that you remove it!" a man in uniform shouted over the heads of the civilians standing obediently in front of him. "That's rich," a man in the crowd muttered to his wife. "He says 'recommend,' but he means 'do it.' " "Folks, I'm telling you,"...

  • Meghan Cox Gurdon: Billy the Wonder Dog has his moment in the snow

    Meghan Cox Gurdon

    Published: Wed, Mar 6, 2013

    "Oh look at how fat they are!" "They really are lazy! They're falling lazily from the sky, as people always say!" "Let's go make a snowman!" cried the youngest child. "The thnow ithn't thick enough yet," said her older sister. It was her first day wearing a new retainer on her teeth, and...

  • Meghan Cox Gurdon: The best laid plans require proper timing

    Meghan Cox Gurdon

    Published: Sat, Mar 2, 2013

    "How long are you going to be, Madam?" "Oh, about an hour and a half," I said gaily, handing the nice valet driver my keys. In a triumph of personal organization, I had actually managed to get from the suburbs to the Willard Hotel in time to attend a lunchtime speech. It is not an easy...

  • Meghan Cox Gurdon: Waiting for ... well, just about everything

    Meghan Cox Gurdon

    Updated: Wed, Feb 27, 2013

    "When's dinner?" Honk. "When I get back from dropping your sister at dance class." Honk. "Can I eat something now?" "Have an apple if you must, but otherwise wait until I get back for a real dinner." Honk. Honk. "I can't wait, I'm starving!" said the child, but she grabbed an apple...

  • Meghan Cox Gurdon: Fat, bored and nearly dead? Juicing could be the thing for you

    Meghan Cox Gurdon

    Published: Wed, Feb 20, 2013

    It wasn't the bleak winter weather that inspired a friend of mine to live differently, nor a New Year's resolution, nor even an uneasy sense that coffee every morning and red wine every evening was not, perhaps, the ideal system for maximum health and mental efficiency. "No, I just got bored,"...

  • Meghan Cox Gurdon: When a blond dog is caked in mud, all you need is love

    Meghan Cox Gurdon

    Published: Sat, Feb 16, 2013

    "Whoa!" cried a young woman, admiringly. "Whoa!" yelped an older man, jerking back to avoid being touched. "What," marveled a third bystander, "are you going to do with him?" The woman with the black dog that had once been flaxen gave them all a look of humorous despair. She sighed...

  • Meghan Cox Gurdon: A daughter's suspenseful countdown to Valentine's Day

    Meghan Cox Gurdon

    Updated: Wed, Feb 13, 2013

    "Don't look in my folder!" The cry was sharp and panicky. The child had just seen her mother extract an orange folder from her backpack, having already removed a wadded-up blue T-shirt, a handful of dented pencils with the lead snapped off and a green apple missing a single bite. You never...


123456

Most Read