My father tore the carpet out of our house a few weeks before my sister’s…
Tag: Relationships
Our book club recently read the Pulitzer Prize winning novel, Less by Andrew Sean Greer. It was a…
I started my day in kindergarten yesterday. Every day that I get to be in…
It’s 4:15 AM and my REM-induced travels are abruptly ended by my clock radio blaring…
Last weekend, my best friend and I recruited a few enthusiastic volunteers (our husbands and…
For the last couple of weekends, I have been shooting my daughter’s senior portraits. It…
I remember when we picked him up. After months of looking, we found him at…
The summer before 5th grade, my father took me on a week-long backpacking trip in…
When I was a little kid, I felt strangely like two different people. In retrospect,…
It was a spring, Saturday morning in Georgia. My father must have been away on…
Next week, my husband and I will be celebrating 29 years of marriage. As our…
I thought this post would be easier to write. I realize that no matter how…
Being a mom is a humbling experience. I have learned more from my daughter in…
Despite sitting at one of those back-bending cafeteria tables, I found myself completed enthralled listening…
If you visit our house, you will get a warm welcome from the four-legged creatures…
On a hot day in July in 1984 in Fairbanks, Alaska, I met the man,…
My dad had a second story apartment in the Casa Del Rey overlooking Broadway. I…
I was invited to a birthday party yesterday. I never pass up a birthday party. …
Earlier this year, I had the opportunity to hear Manny Scott, one of the original…
When I was a little girl, one of my favorite things was spending the night…
I was two months into my first year in a new school when I found…
As I was driving home from work tonight, Corey Hart’s Never Surrender came on. You…
My daughter missed her dentist appointment this week. In general, she is a very responsible…
I was sitting at Finaghty’s Irish Pub the night before we were to celebrate the…
Over the course of this week, as we prepare to celebrate my dad’s life, we…
I think at the end of a life, it is the little things you remember…
Last night I went to my favorite Christmas party. I have been attending this party…
I think this is my very favorite picture and that is saying a lot given…
