Redefining happily ever after.
The streets of the little French village we were staying in had been built in circles around an arena. This meant a lot of tourists finding themselves missing the turn to the restaurant or the museum or that little store that had the cute thing in the window – now where did that go? I […]
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I find myself constantly asking the teenagers I know where they want to go to college, what they want to be when they grow up – they look so on the cusp of adulthood and I am so excited for the adventures they are going to have that I forget to ask what is happening […]
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I walk around the back of the sparkling white Land Rover and start to giggle. I hear the voice of an Australian outdoors man (think Crocodile Dundee or Steve Irwin the beloved, late Crocodile Hunter), “the elusive mammal known as ‘Mom-us On-the-run-us’ has just moved in to her natural habitat, the wilds of the grocery […]
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You can’t see the dirty spoon I found in my son’s bed when I went to kiss him goodnight. You can’t see my gray roots that sprout up just as fast as I can color them. You can’t see the cloudy spots on my wine glasses (and you probably can’t tell I bought them at […]
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There’s a silver lining to the grief of losing a marriage or going through a major health crisis or a disaster of one sort or another, but it’s not something people talk about often. Most people aren’t really up for hearing the “bright side” of divorce or cancer or the death of someone you love. […]
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