We arrived in San Juan, Puerto Rico on a Wednesday afternoon. Immediately after checking in, the air in our hotel room was saturated with a fine mist of SPF 50. Suitcases were ransacked, searching for […]
Category: Mom-ing
rejection
The parallel between perimenopause and puberty – rejection.
blueprint
It’s the day you dread as a parent. It’s an impending day from the moment your child is placed into your arms just minutes after their birth. It’s the day that the advice you give […]
Finding Santa.
Prior to making this discovery, we spent years standing in line for hours at the local mall and paid insane fees for a thumb drive with photos. Long lines and impatient kids meant by the […]
Hello, again.
It’s been a while. I always tell people I have a blog. I direct smaller literary magazines here when I submit stories. But, it wasn’t until I recently paid for the renewal of this blog […]
wow. just wow.
Today, my daughter played her first competitive basketball game against another team. I arrived at the game (masked) and the only member of my family that was able to attend, since the athletics department at […]
the toil of a middday movie
It is not customary for us to indulge in a midday movie, but it was the last day of vacation and following a rather busy family weekend, we finally had some time to enjoy something […]
family over everything
Whenever I feel them closing in on me
Or need a bit of room to move
When life becomes too fast, I find relief at last
Out in the country (or up north)
so we journal
In December of 2020, she turned nine. And it happened in what seemed to be in the blink of an eye. My daughter went from a baby to a little girl, and now, a girl. […]
We lived in a camper for five months (yes! Really!)
2020, or as I like to call it, the year of unrelenting hell, ended on a definite high note for me when Red Tricycle published a piece I wrote about the time we lived in […]
Runs Through Life 