It’s been weeks now, maybe months. I wake up in the dark, at two or three, and I lay. I listen to creaks of the house. I stare at the ceiling, watch the slice of light from the street lamps that comes in-between the cracks… Read More
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Letters to My Daughter: Sexy
I’m not sure where the word came from. I don’t know where you first heard it, or how you came to incorporate it into your vocabulary, without fully understanding it’s meaning. But, it’s there. You strike a pose in front of your friend and have… Read More
On Spending An Afternoon With Thrive Outdoors & TAG
It’s late Friday afternoon and I’m sitting in a lounge at the UUC church on Union Street in Manchester, NH. The room is eclectic, decorated with congregational signage, rainbow flag pennants, a string of silver owls on twine, mismatched pottery on shelves. There’s a shiny… Read More
In Lieu of Superfluous Apologies…A Year of Acceptance
This started as a rainy Sunday afternoon post, written while I’m feeling tired and not well, and psyching myself up for a twelve-hour night without Vinnie. He’ll be gone before dinner and home just as the children are unfolding themselves from their blankets and beginning their… Read More
When Goodbye…
I think this is where we were for Kaleb, I said to Vinnie as we walked into the parlor. Was it the same for Pepere, too? We’ve done this walk before, as a family, too many times in our recent years. Things are blurring together in my… Read More
The Choices We Make, The Roads We Take
Sometime in the frozen tundra of last winter – way, way back in a Once Upon a Time land, where I waited by the window for my husband to come home from work and had anxiety over babysitting arrangements for each and every wedding or… Read More
Because, I’m Happy…
Running yesterday, I made eye contact with a person on the sidewalk. You look happy to be running on this beautiful day, she said. And I realized, I had been smiling. Not at her, and certainly not at running, but just in general, as I… Read More
One Year
It’s an old story, stop me if you’ve heard it before. Two thirty-something moms stop for a drink on their way home from grocery shopping on a winter’s eve. They sit at the bar, at the only available seats, and are chatted up by an… Read More
The Sweetest One
The other morning, Vinnie was up before me, off to do a presentation for Thrive with his best friend. I cleaned up after the kid’s breakfast, and as I collected orange peels in my palms and as I loaded the dishwasher, I thought how very strange… Read More
All Things Considered – Fogdog
It’s the Dictionary.com Word of the Day today. Fogdog. It means, a bright spot sometimes seen in a fog bank. Fogdog chimed as it arrived in my inbox at 7:40. Like most every other morning this summer, I was already awake when it popped up… Read More
The Frozen Moon 