Why didn't you…
The number one question I get asked isn’t what you’d think. Everyone tends to shy away from the “What happened?” as they consider it too personal, and most often don’t want to bring up bad memories or force me to answer something I don’t want to think about, even now. But, once they DO ask […]
Sibling rivalry…
…or something like that. Sometimes, as I’m at my house, alone with my children, telling them something in a slightly elevated tone of voice – exhausted or bemused, either way – it appears that my mother sneaks in, and says things that I remember hearing from my childhood. She is just suddenly THERE, flying RIGHT […]
A very busy Saturday…
Yes, I am fully aware that it is now Monday and I’m just now writing, but I was still tossing and turning over the idea of putting this at the Parenting Teens Blog where I seem to do most of my writing about family anymore, or here. In the end, I decided here, because she’s […]
August 26, 2005
It’s been three and a half years, and I still cry. Not all the time, not as often, not always when expected or for the same triggers as the last time, but I do. I cry. I hate to cry – yet still… sometimes, you just can’t do anything about it. Kevin worked on “The […]
And so it goes…
I’ve been thinking of opening this website for some time now. I had run it by one of my jobs, and while they were interested, it hasn’t been quick in coming, and you know how it is with us writers – once we have something to write, we need to write it. There’s simply no […]