Someone once told me when I became a parent at age 20 that the days would be long but the years would be short. Like any recent teenager, I hadn’t much perspective on the passing of time, of hours whiling away, slipping like water down the drain. I wanted time to pass. I wanted to […]
Admit it girl, last summer when you saw someone reading Fifty Shades of Grey boldly as they lounged by the pool . . .you judged them. And don’t lie; you didn’t like Gabby Douglas’ hair. I know she’s the best gymnast currently in the entire world but seriously her hair is a mess. And remember […]
This is a picture my kid made of me 17 years ago. I made him “odd” he says but I hope I made him other things too. I’m not perfect. I have a dark chocolate and sea salt candy bar twice the size of a checkbook hiding in my purse. It’s hiding for a reason. […]
Raising kids is hard; hard but not impossible. You think you know everything until the first time your kid does something like dash out into a street and gets hit by a car and this from the kid who ALWAYS stopped ten feet from the corner. You think you know everything till the kid who […]
When I picked up the ATM receipt littered on the ground next to my car, I thought it might be mine. When I saw the balance I knew it wasn’t. Who the hell deposits $42,000 at an ATM to add to their already obscene balance of $138,145 dollars and 87 cents? My first reaction was […]
Dear Robert’s Dad, I used to be like you. Oh I was never quite so bad. I never yelled expletives or plotted my revenge on the referee. I never turned purple or glared at the opposing team’s parents as if they carried arsenic in their pom-poms. But I cared. I cared so much that I […]
