After our beloved cat, Cosmo, was killed tragically in our driveway by a neighbor a couple of years ago, poppies started springing up from the rock. Directly over the spot where his body had lay, they grew like an unplanned memorial the earth showed...
Feeling anxious every Sunday evening and night, dreading Monday morning and the work week starting all over again? Read this. What exactly are Sunday scaries? Let’s start with the very basics. “Transitioning from a weekend into what’s...
I waited on my mama to make her appearance at our annual Memorial Day family reunion with a nauseating mixture of need, anxiety and dread. When she arrived, I blinked and shook my head like a battered boxer in an attempt to adjust and refocus her...
I don’t have a bucket list per se. There are lots of things I want to do before I die, but I have not sat down and written out a list. That just seems so dark. However, I do keep a bucket list of sorts in my head that mostly involves all the places...
She has always drawn all over her hands; In blue ink, and red ink, and with black sharpies. I asked her so many times to please stop doing it. My reasoning was simply that it looked dirty to me, to see her looking like that. Tessa is my middle...
Our kids are cute, we want to capture a moment, a vacation, an outing but how often are we in the picture too? It doesn’t matter how beautiful they are: most women are self-conscious of being photographed. Whether it’s because we say I need to...
I will be the first one to admit, I can be a little judgy. I really do try to keep it in check, but I’m not always successful. It’s not that I think I’m better than anyone. I just have very strong opinions on right and wrong. I recently discovered...
She was the type who could do almost anything. Everything she baked was delicious, she could sew intricately, and her garden buzzed with life that she had brought to it. I remember watching my mom’s best friend, Lyn, as a kid, thinking that I hoped...
Recently, I read the delightful autobiography of movie and theater legend Mel Brooks. What a fascinating life he has lived. He has been a part of some of my favorite productions. I loved learning the inside story of those, but what struck a chord...
I could live to be 100 and I don’t think I will ever understand my dogs’ hatred of the UPS man. They get a little wound up over the mailman and the FedEx guy, but the UPS man sends them over the damn edge. I have a theory. In this theory, I’m...