In honor of Valentine’s Day, a different kind of love story… We are in the midst of my elder son’s end-of-season 8th grade basketball tournament. My son played his first game last week. They were up against another team we’d heard about, but hadn’t yet played. This other team was the underdog. My son’s team […]
Category: Parenting
So, apparently when I used almost an entire bottle of wood glue to repair the slanting $20 particle board bookshelf where I store my cookbooks, the glue ran down and stuck the bookshelf to the floor. Luckily, I’m married to a beefcake who managed to break it loose. I had to use a flathead screwdriver […]
When we moved into our house three and a half years ago, there was a decorative roller flag hanging near the front door. It was old, faded, and taped with floral duct tape. We never even pulled it down to look at it. We had our house painted recently, and finally the roller flag came […]
I know what Heaven feels like. When the seven-year-old’s alarm goes off, and he slips into bed between me and my husband. I lay there in the half-light of a fall morning, soaking in their sleepy scent. Exhausted, my husband stirs only slightly. He still smells faintly of smoke – the cologne of the firefighter […]
I never took a stance on a political issue in my newspaper column, and I’ve carried that tradition forward into my blog. But this time, with this issue, as a White woman with a (albeit very small) platform, I have decided to publicly stand in the gap. This is not about Right and Left, it’s […]
This is not the first time I’ve asked myself this question. It’s not the first time I’ve been scared. I have autoimmune disease. You can’t see it, but it’s always there, waiting for a moment of weakness, a worry, a stress or strain, a virus… Waiting to find something to wake it up. Waiting to […]