It all started when the middle sister, Jaime (I’m the oldest of three) called me and said very excitedly, “You wanna go see Air Supply?!” I immediately replied with a, “Fuck, yeah!” So began our journey as “Air Heads.” It has become a pilgrimage of...
It’s been two full years of homeschooling her now; A thing I said I could never do. I imagined it would be chalk-full of things like floor-length jean skirts, FLDS hairstyles, and a long, knotted rope or two, with a trigger finger on a label making...
I’m weird. I know this. If someone calls me weird, I do not take offense. Facts are facts. That being said, there are some other places I could live that I wouldn’t be quite as weird. However, in my current locale, I’m weird AF. Have I always been...
It all started in Miss Plum’s (now Dr. Plum) Media Law and Ethics class in college. I had Miss Plum for a couple of lower-level journalism classes and was a big fan of her no-nonsense attitude and dry wit. I had no idea of the justice-seeking...
Per my youngest daughter, Paige’s request, we went fishing this last week. It’s not a thing we usually do. We’ve gone once in 10 years, I think. It was spring break, and her mind was racing with possibilities of all the things she could do with my...
As a child growing up in Southern Ohio with grandparents in Eastern Kentucky, I never heard tell of the great and noble lentil. Yet here I am at 49 years of age with a vegetarian, Asian daughter in my house and lentils are a major staple of our diet...
Sometimes he was hard on me. Sometimes it felt hard to connect. I was fiery and adventurous, after all. I wanted colored hair and multiple piercings. I think maybe he didn’t quite know what to do with all of that. He was raised with the tumbleweeds...
I’m a terrible sleeper. While I like to blame the pandemic and menopause, the truth is, I have always had trouble sleeping. As far back as my childhood, I can recall lying in bed for hours longing to just fall the fuck asleep. As if insomnia isn’t...
They always say the teen years are hard, and you nod the same half-hearted nod you did when, as a mother of a tantruming toddler, they used to tell you to enjoy every moment, because the years would fly by before you even realized what end was up...
I love bourbon. It is pure perfection. Just all that goes into its existence is Harry Potter-level magic. Whiskey has been a part of my life in some form or fashion for the last 20 years. It is an amazing industry filled with even greater people. It...