Email from Hannah CdeP 2013 mid-week: “Can Brittany and I come by to see you Saturday? She’s home on fall break, and I’m coming up for the weekend.” Of course. They knocked on the door late morning, bounded in for hugs, beelined for the kitchen. Both girls—ok, young women–had been part of my Golden Trout […]
Kitchen demolition is slated for next week, and my job is both simple and formidable: empty the hub of the house of everything in it, down to the last pieces of stray dog kibble in the pantry’s far corner. (Some mouse’s stash, no doubt. Bummer when he comes for it.) Knowing how good Rae will […]
Last weekend, squeezed in somehow between camping trip preparation meetings, Spring Sing, and the last coffee house of the year, I managed to grab a few hours, a Suburban, and seven eager sophomores for a quick trip to Los Angeles to take in some culture. Our destination: my friend, Thacher classmate, and advisee’s father Johannes […]
“Hey, Ms. Mully. I have a question about Winter Alumni Weekend. Would you please call me back?” Stefanie–an advisee from what seems like about eight or nine years ago but isn’t–had left a message on our phone during the holiday break. Maybe it was the recording, but to my ears she sounded exactly like the […]
Remember three decades ago, The Big Chill, a breakout film for Glenn Close, William Hurt, Kevin Kline, Jeff Goldblum, Meg Tilley, JoBeth Williams, and–as the dead guy whose face no one ever sees, Kevin Costner? (Clearly, I’m beyond worrrying about dating myself.) The first morning the old college friends are together, each comes into the […]
In Boston a couple of weeks back, as a break in the conference action–the annual meeting of The Association of Boarding Schools–Michael and I went cross-town, over the Charles, and down to Bertucci’s on Harvard Square, there to meet a handful of CdeP’s most recent grads. Over pizza and salad, Leeah (Northeastern), Trevor (MIT), Steffi […]