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 […]
This post is over three times longer, and 1,000 times more vulnerable than my typical posts. Bear with me, dear readers, as I process a painful new reality. Before we became friends, I watched Brenna from afar with awe and wonder. She was confident, bold, smart, savvy. Like me, she wore glasses. But instead of […]
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 […]
I have no vanity about the cars I drive, because I’ve rarely been able to afford it. For me, cars are like pets. I name them. I cheer them on when they are struggling. I pat them when they do well. I have relationships with my cars, some healthy, some not so much. Some were […]
Through my divorce and then my illness, I learned first that no matter how carefully I planned out my life, things could still go haywire, and second, that sometimes, if you just let things be what they are and trust the process they often (i.e. almost always) turn out better than you’d planned. It hasn’t […]
