Made it back home to DC! About 10 min after this picture was taken, Noah cut his hand on something sharp, bleeding all over the place. Then on the drive home both kids got carsick and threw up. This current season is the toughest stretch of parenting I've been through so far.

"I hate how cool they are," I muttered.

Helicopters of DC at CopterSpotter.com Just saw an escorted B2 bomber fly by in NW DC.

Air India crash investigation focuses on movement of engine fuel control switches theaircurrent.com/aviation-safet… (via Jon Ostrower) #staycurrent

Laid up in bed with a bad ulcerative colitis flare. What would make this better? A tornado warning centered directly on where I live.

With great sadness, we share that Ryne Sandberg has passed away today.

Ms. Rachel forever washingtonpost.com/parenting/inte…

Every damned year I failed the sit and reach but got presidential on every other thing.

2002 Illinois Governor Primary.

Love this magazine package about late night in DC—"the city that very much sleeps" 😂 washingtonian.com/2025/07/31/up-…

We are reaching heretofore unseen levels of trying to change the subject

IAD ✈️ CDG. A350 is such a neat airplane.

After a far too ambitious travel day we made it where we were going in France. My body has no idea what time it is and I took a French Dramamine yesterday that was really just like 100mg of Benadryl but the kids got to feed goats this morning.

For comparison that is 1.6% of the amount used for agricultural irrigation in Texas each year.

Ah, so that explains that.

regarding the situation in dc. you do not, under any circumstances, "gotta hand it to them"

Haven't been posting much, I've been dealing with a chronic illness. But I'm hanging in there. One day at a time. Thanks to my doctors and a course of steroids I'm able to be abroad for a family trip to France but I'm anxious for the city, DC, that is my home. Stay strong.

Fun fact: there's paramedics stationed at the Eiffel Tower at all times. I know this because at lunch our two year old shoved a pea so far up his nose we needed them to get it out.

CDG ✈️ IAD