It is 4:30 in the morning, and I have been up for an hour. I was having a nightmare – in the car with work colleagues driving to a client’s site when the facility blew up in the distance. Flames and sparks, a black cloud that began to spread across the sky and quickly blotted out…
October
11 years ago this month, I met my husband. (On that day, my friend’s first and only nephew was born – happy birthday Kevin!) We were at his parents’ home in South Carolina. I was there with the two women who would be my only non-sister bridesmaids – two of my theater besties, two women I…
Saturday Morning Meal Planning
There’s a bit of a chill in the air, which means one thing around this house: soup-making time! The baby is tooling around on the floor drooling on things, I’m googling Skylanders Swap Force (this is the Pokémon/Ninjago of Jack’s generation, apparently, and thus is a little boy’s Christmas list born), the boys are watching…
Breaking the Writer’s Block
“You look tired” said the YMCA employee to me, as she passed me on her way up and down the locker room aisles with a broom and dustpan. I am running a comb through my hair, pinning it back up into a bun, getting ready to go back to work. “I am pretty tired,” I…
BIZZY
I have literally three minutes here, so I default to my norm: cute kid stories. So boring 4U, so interesting 2ME! Liam moved his (my) ukulele the other day, and said loudly: I hereby decree this guitar does not reside in this room. Craig has had two teeth, on bottom, for a couple of months…