Monthly Archive: September 2014
I want so many things for my children. They aren’t what I typically hear other parents say. I don’t fantasize about my children being grown up and married with kids. I don’t daydream that...
The house is unusually quiet. The clicking of her longer-than-usual fingernails on the laptop keyboard echoes in her ears as her pinkie makes a demanding pressured sound on the “enter” key. She slides her...
I’ve believed for sometime now that we’re often handed forced downtime when we don’t take it ourselves. Illness and injury seem to be two things that creep into life when we know that we...
Every now and then there are spaces in life that feel like they exist purely as tests of will and mental endurance. For me, these last several months have been one of those times....
I like a good drink. It’s in my bio—my love of hoppy beer. I also love a glass of wine after a long day and a shot of tequila on a Saturday afternoon. But...