“You’re where?” “Austin,” he says. I’m 1,000 miles from home with the headache from hell. I’m holding back a flood of tears over my younger son who is spending his first night in the dorm. In a new part of the country. In a new life. He’s fine, I know. But I’m a mess.
Emperor’s New Clothes
Everyone needs a new look now and then, n’est-ce pas? So what do you think? Yes, tweaking will be required. Yes, a new pair of heels as well. (Any excuse for hot shoes… What can I say?) And don’t we all need to update our first impression occasionally?
Gone Fishing
Once, I was forced to put a wiggly worm onto a pointy hook and lower the line into a body of water. I didn’t much care for that activity, though sitting on the side of a river bank (or European canal) is very restful, indeed. Might I try it, without the rod and reel? Once, […]
Looking Ahead to Goodbye
The realization that we are sending our kids off to college. Saying our goodbyes, tenderly.
Backbone
When parenting requires the backbone to say no.
First Impressions, College Capers
Do you need to be liked? If the answer is yes, join the crowd. Oh, most adults don’t need to be liked by everyone, but the younger we are, the wobblier that evolving self-image and the more important it is to feel liked. Remember high school? Exactly. Remember those first days at college? Tricky. At […]
Stacked
Looks? Sure, they matter. Health? Naturally. Money? Stuff? Of course. We all have to eat, right? Yet I look around my little house and the way I count my riches has to do with stacks of books on my bedroom floor – eighteen of them – an assortment of references and magazines that have overflowed […]
French Vogue’s Mini-Models: Fashion or Faux-Pas?
French Vogue uses 10-year old models in provocative ads.
Does Watching Television Shorten Your Life?
Don’t you just love the tidbits you pick up through social media? I couldn’t resist reading this one last evening – an article on how television shortens our life span. Except of course, it isn’t that TV shortens your life span. There is no causation to that effect; it’s the association – a connection or […]
Triangle
It is the low-pitched and rolling brogue that startles me, and I look up. I hadn’t heard him enter the living room. “Surprised to see me?” he asks, cocking that irrepressible eyebrow that makes a woman’s heart beat faster, like everything else about him. I’m not sure what to say. I am surprised to see […]