Funny
Sometimes life is not funny. Not. Funny.
Happiness
At a meeting the other day, a very astute colleague made an off-hand comment about how she sometimes still feels like she’s waiting for something, for life to start.
Change
My kids moved into their new classrooms yesterday. For my son, this meant moving from being an “Infant” to a “Young Toddler”. This milestone means nothing more than moving into a classroom right...
Beautiful
At not-quite-four years old, my daughter has already acquired an awareness of a well known horror: “the mean girl”.
Awareness
The other day I was leaving a store equipped with automated doors—the kind that open as you walk toward them, leaving you with no greater job but to keep walking. I was literally millimeters away...
The T-Shirt
I have a “t-shirt” that I adore. My husband would laugh at the use of the word “t-shirt” (which is why I am lovingly surrounding it with quotes) because it is better described as a thin willowy patch...
May Day
Happy May Day!
Brown M&Ms: The Rest of the Story
What can Van Halen and brown M&Ms teach us about reading the whole story?
Perhaps you remember as well as I do the Big Hair Bands that dominated the charts during the 1980s. These bands were known...
The Sock Monster
I have discovered the secret of the Sock Monster.
Words
One morning not too long ago, I was encouraging my 3-year old daughter to get dressed for school. As it happened, it was the day before St. Patrick’s Day so I had gotten her a themed t-shirt to wear,...