Just this second, I’m feeling overwhelmed and out of control. Oddly, it has nothing to do with the job, which continues to click along at a breakneck pace, taking up virtually all of my time. Nope, it’s not the job – it’s my personal life that is wiggin’ me out. I have to begin a…
Category: Parents and Siblings and Cousins, Oh My!
Friday Night in Mo-Town
I am drinking my second beer of the night, in my hotel room, listening to the sounds of the various humans occupying their little blocks of space beside me, below me, above me. My friend and fellow law clerk keeps hinting via text that he’d love some company at the sports bar downtown, but I’m…
Fairy tale
Once upon a time, back in the days before my marriage, I still lived with my oldest younger sister. We lived together in a tiny grayish house in Hillsborough, North Carolina, a town that still holds my heart, though I try daily to forget it and devote myself body and soul to my new home…
No, That’s Not How I Got These Great Beads
As I mentioned last year, Mardi Gras can be extremely family friendly, if you want it to be. Go to Canal street and you’re seeing some b00bs, but stick to certain well-known areas of the parade route and you’ll be surrounded by wagons and juice boxes and those ladders with a little high chair at…
Childhood Memories
Walking across the small military base to the pool, swimming for hours in the sun, then returning home. Taking a hot shower and smelling the chlorine wash away, then watching a movie with my wet hair turbaned in a towel and a plate with grilled cheese and apples in my lap. Puddle stomping with Amanda, back when…