OKAY IN THE END

Forty-three years ago today the nine-year-old girl I was woke up with a houseful of loved ones to begin her walk through a dimly lit,...

Jeanne had hit her tolerance for washing machine misbehavior, so she took to YouTube.

Over 22 years ago I started gifting photo calendars to my children's grandmother at Christmas. You've seen the kind I'm sure: a photo per...

What if it was Different? What if my Mom hadn't died? What if my Dad was still here? By the time I was 19 both my parents were dead. Mom...

Thoughts about the emotional impact of the people that we know on the internet.

I'm a library nerd. For someone who doesn't read many books cover to cover, I could get lost in a library for hours. I check out a stack...

Mid-life moodiness has had me struggling to see the sunny side, as does the lack of stimulation from seeing friends, being comfortably...

Columbus Day, 2015. My then-husband had the day off. The kids were in school. I just looked it up on my work website: I had 3 deliveries...

My mom had one of these when I was little. Either the halo or the bird(or both) had been glued back on. Mom died at age 50, when I was 9...

I attended my son’s high school graduation yesterday evening: I woke up tearful. Joyful tears. I am blown away by how the school...