What do you get when you combine a 4-year-old and rolled up cardboard? A trip to the doc to remove said cardboard from their nose! Two weeks ago, my son said, “Mommy I have garbage in my nose.” I thought he meant booger. So showed him how to blow his nose. Then Sunday night he…
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It happened again
It happened again. No, this is not the dreaded ma’am. Or even being called an elderly pregnancy. This is far worse. This is when people ask if you are the grandma of your own kid. Oh the horror. 🙂 Photo by KristinNador / CC BY The writer in me really wanted to come up with a fantastical reason….
Tooth Fairy
The soft sob my daughter gave was not normal. It was a school morning. Which meant at 7:15 she was barefoot, and crazy haired from sleep. She looked up and Instead of the missing-front-teeth-grin, her mouth puckered and tears rolled down her cheeks. “The tooth fairy never came.” Her lips quivered. My heart picked up…
No little boys
My daughter recently hit that age where you are sick of having your little brother barge into your room and take and break and steal your treasures. This was her response. What do you do when you are frustrated?
TEDx Talk
I am so proud of my friend for having the courage to do a TEDx talk.
Some things that make me feel…
Some things that make me feel old: That movie that ‘just’ came out is 20 years old Buying something and having an old price stuck in your head – 2:25 for a trade paperback Stepping on the scale That first half mile of a run Owning something that came back into style Some things that make…
Bring back the art of long letter writing
I’m old enough to remember receiving letters in the mail. Hand-written letters, usually from older relatives. This was before cell phones, before computers. It was a time when you looked forward to getting the mail since it was personal correspondence and not a paper version of spam. Opening an actual letter is somehow different than…
Personal challenges for 2017
I am optimistic about this new year. It’s silly little things like I made a deadline to an editor and got the Christmas tree down before spring flowers sprouted. So on that note, here are my top three personal challenges. 1. Planks. I jokingly told my husband that I am going to start planks at…
An Uncompromising Editor
There were some lines I laughed my butt off. My poor plot has been in the bathroom. Lol