Me
It’s late. I’m tired. I haven’t been here in so long. There are so many reasons why I haven’t been here in so long. And now I’m at the end of the day, wanting mostly to close my eyes and burrow into my...
View ArticleIrony
Today is a Project: Underblog day. You’ll find me over there writing about how I never seem to have enough time. Ironic, really, since I barely have time enough now to direct you over that way. I do...
View ArticleLove It Up: The Winner!
Finally! What has taken me so long to post the winner to last month’s Love It Up, you ask? I have no worthy excuses, except life claimed me. It’s as it should be, I know. I am consumed with the busy...
View Article30,000 words and counting
You know how sometimes you don’t know how you’re feeling until someone you love asks you and you start talking (or typing) and it all comes out. And you listen to yourself (or reread your words on the...
View ArticleIn the mirror
They are all three-and-a-half years older. So am I, for that matter. The littlest still crawls on top of me. The oldest still waits for me, these days on the edge of the chair in the kitchen while I’m...
View Article“It depends.”
It’s been so long since I wrote here that I had to actually think about what my password is. It took me two tries and slight panic, but good ol’ WordPress let me in. The calendar says September first,...
View ArticleTesting, testing
As a kid, tests meant studying, quiet, eraser gum brushed by the back of my hand across a desk. Hunched backs, held breath, heavy sighs. And waiting for the results. As an adult, tests mean DOB,...
View ArticleOn Being Worthy
I don’t have time to be writing this. I have deadlines to meet, PTO work to get done. But the words I should be working on are being pushed aside, because there are words I need to get down, out of the...
View ArticleHappysad
This morning I wrote my last preschool tuition check—late, like just about all of them, but last. I started writing at Momalom when this soon-to-be kindergartener of mine was just about six months old....
View ArticleDo any of us really need a reminder that life is fleeting?
My children love their father fiercely. I think they know they almost lost him a few years ago, when they woke up and I had to tell them that an ambulance took him away while they were sleeping. What...
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