Do I really have to savor every minute of this parenting thing? Because I don’t think I can truthfully. A lovely Sunday morning, where all I truly want is to watch Charles Osgood, drink coffee, fant...
Last night I had a rare night out with two very special women, my great friends. We all have busy lives and lots of kids, and seem to run on the same path and energy that most of the women around us ...
I have often wondered what my kids would be like if they were raised in a different place. Not a different country, so much, as just a different climate, a different sensibility and pace. Â
An old f...
Every year around this time I start to catalog the year up until now, and to see its high and low points. I get mentally ready to tackle my resolution list, and to evaluate how I think I have done on...
Every year at our Thanksgiving Dinner with my family, after lots of football and laughing and eating, and just being happy to be together, we circle the table with things we are thankful for that year...
Ten years ago I was a much different Mom sitting in this waiting room. Now, seasoned beyond my wildest dreams, I have sat in more waiting rooms than I care to count. The Rehabilitation Institute of ...
My family recently traveled for Spring Break – for a lot of reasons other than just “because everyone else does it.” I felt we needed a drastic change of scenery. We have been on a hamster wheel for...
I want to take a day off, I really do. I want to sit back on the couch, relax, basically just not get up for awhile. I want to be able to rest and do nothing, and to be ok with that.  But for some ...
I would not say I am a particularly flexible person, in the physical sense. Can’t quite remember my last back bend or splits – but it was definitely sometime in my early childhood. Yet, people are a...
The first day of summer or the first day of camp are supposed to be exciting and memorable and calm.
But sometimes things don’t work out and it doesn’t go your way or the way you thought it should pl...
