Facing marital challenges and divorce, not always at our best.
Help Line
When I had a question about my hosting service recently, I picked up the phone and called the Help Line. Ten minutes later, I had my response, and knew exactly how to accomplish my goal. But when it comes to asking for help in life, that’s harder. I was raised to offer help and to […]
Happy UN-Mother’s Day
I know, I know. It’s Mother’s Day Weekend, and many of us are gathering around family, specifically our mothers and grandmothers, or our children are gleefully coloring and crafting little gifts to present as tokens of their love. But spending Mother’s Day with the woman who raised you isn’t always possible. For instance, my own […]
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 […]
Surprise, Surprise
No one likes getting caught with their pants down. Well. No one I know, anyway. No one likes being wakened suddenly out of a sound sleep – certainly not by a falling tree, a screaming child, a blaring alarm clock when you thought you could sleep in. No one likes unpleasant surprises, the ones that […]
Stay At Home Mom With Kids in School?
What exactly does a SAHM do? Plenty!
Nolo Contendere
Listening. Can it make or break a relationship?
Eight Hours, Six Sons, Two Dreams
In the dream I am a young boy, an adolescent really, fourteen or fifteen. My skin is translucent, my veins sky blue, and my fingers are finally growing. My arms and legs are too long on an awkwardly assembled chassis. My voice has yet to drop and my cheeks show no need of a razor. […]
How to Marry the “Right” Person
Can we acquire the skills to choose partners with our heads as well as our hearts?
Going Nowhere… Slowly
Drifters, grifters and gifters?