What we want in relationships can change, dramatically.
Panic… For Good Reason
Your heart pounds. Your palms sweat, You can’t catch your breath. What’s happening?
Angry?
Powerlessness can lead to rage.
Conflict of Interest
Relationship, parenting, work, and maybe a few zzzzzs. Always the tug-of-war.
Searching
It is a simple thing. I am searching for a password to an alumnae account so I can update a profile. I am searching for the key, a combination of letters and numbers that resides somewhere on a thumb drive, itself a key. I have only to locate the right one – a small strip […]
A Case for Friendship
Friendship. Essential to love at any age.
Feisty, Flirty, and Fifty (Something)
Attitude is everything? Not really. But it helps.
Slicing the Onion
You know the recipe by heart and you move through the preparations as usual. You grab the red onion and slice through its textured flesh with a practiced hand. You begin the quick business of cutting rings or dicing squares, and your eyes begin to burn, to tear uncontrollably, and you’re caught off guard. So […]
Moms Gone Wild?
Is my own version of Moms Gone Wild in the future? Is it in yours? Once my chicks have flown the nest, I doubt I’ll be the poster parent for frenzied frolicking or salacious sex scenes. Then again, you never know, though I suspect that an afternoon of discount designer shoe shopping might be more […]
Report Card
It’s approaching the end of the school year, and as my son prepares for a variety of exams and final papers, I think about the report card. Not his. Mine. As he continues his last push toward graduation, I find myself wondering what sort of marks I would receive as his parent. Of course, I […]