Traffic traumas. Blistering burns. (Anger management.)
Letting Go
Reinvention through dreams of life before and after divorce, processing the post-marital landscape.
Beyond Me
I haven’t lost it. Yet. But I’m biting my lip, and sleeping less. I’m weary, from worry. From the habit of worry. My kids aren’t adults, but they’re getting close. More importantly, they believe they’re adults – or nearly. They’ve been living on their own – my elder for three years, and his brother, for […]
None of This, Some of That, and Julia Child’s French Onion Soup
To get what you want, you need to know what you want.
How Was YOUR Year in Review?
My year? Mixed bag. 2011 started off with some mighty mountainous tasks, and Sisyphus himself would have had a little chuckle as the boulder held the upper hand. But the months plodded along all the same and there were unexpected highs (Hello – a big scholarship to college for my son!), seemingly unending lows (Can […]
Old Love Letters: Treasure Them or Toss Them?
Old love letters may threaten current partners. Now what?
Divorce Over An Affair From 6 Decades Ago?
Seriously? I just came across this news brief from The Telegraph: A 99-year old Italian man is divorcing his 96-year old wife of nearly eight decades. Marriage is no bed of roses, but what could possibly prompt this sort of action? You got it. An affair. An affair which he uncovered a few days before […]
Why Hibernation Rocks (Or Would, If I Could Manage It)
The Single Mom’s Dream: sleep, sleep, sleep!
Cranky
I love having my children home. I love having my children home. I love having my children home. I do. Really. I love that my sons are home from college and here for awhile. But it’s been less than a week, and the Grand Central Station Effect is wearing me down sooner than anticipated. Contrary […]
Four Days and an Electric Train
Meal time and clean up had yielded to quiet time; company had headed home and my boys were off into the night to visit friends nearby. I settled in with 1949’s Holiday Affair, a simplistic romance between a war widow (Janet Leigh) and a sales clerk (Robert Mitchum). Sparks fly between these two over an […]