Tag: family
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People Who Live in Glass Houses Shouldn’t Throw Stones
As the mother of an 11-year old boy, the news of Jerry Sandusky’s alleged child abuse and the questionable diligence Joe Paterno exercised in reporting the incident hit close to home. Needing an outlet for my feelings, I posted the following on my Facebook page immediately after I heard the news: “I don’t care about…
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Have You Seen Goldie?
When my youngest, Essa, first spoke, her words weren’t the usual “mama,” or “dada,” or anything normal like that. What actually came out, accompanied by a laser-like glare aimed directly at me, was; “Can I please have a golden retriever puppy, preferably female and of medium build, with a generous spirit and twinkly eyes? She’ll…
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Making a Case for the Small Things in Life
Flying with children can be more excruciating than an outdoor back wax on a sub-zero day. Unless they’re old enough to serve as free labor and schlep all the carry-ons. Then it’s awesome. But I’m not there yet. So on a fairly recent flight from D.C. to Denver, our family got stuck in the holding…
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Why Two Last Names Might Be Better Than One
In 1972, NASA announced the development of the Space Shuttle, Mark Spitz won seven Olympic gold medals, and Serbian stewardess Vesna Vulovic set a world record by surviving a 33,330-foot fall without a parachute. Seriously. You can look it up. It was also the year that my parents got divorced. Now that I’m older, I…
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A Strange Tale of Rodents, NyQuil, and Random Christmas Lessons
Let me start by inserting a spoiler alert. I’m writing this having just shotgunned about a gallon of NyQuil. Yesterday I was bragging to my husband, Scot (who is fighting off a tiny cold and is bed-ridden for the foreseeable future, likely until next year’s elections) that due to my impervious genetic make-up, I‘ve not…
READING BETWEEN THE PINES 