I thought it might be easier the second time around. But just as each child is different, the experience of seeing a second son off to university was different. Different, not easier. This week has been a whirlwind. The boys …
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You know those pesky socks – the singles ones (never a pair) that disappear when you’re doing the laundry? I now proof that the washing machine really does eat them! One fateful laundry day recently, my washing machine made a horrible …
I just don’t understand. In the last two weeks, the world has seen a bombing at a major European airport, a suicide attack in Bagdad as Eid celebrations were underway, a mass shooting in Orlando, individuals gunned down by police …
Two years ago, I wrote about getting ready for my first-born to leave the nest. Now it’s time to start thinking about the same mix of pride, sadness, excitement and melancholy again. Son number two has always been his own person. …
For Mother’s Day, and in no particular order, some of the things I’ve learned in the last decade or so: Crispy brownish two-day-old roses from a teenager are really, really pretty. Telling a 10 year old you like chocolate means …
Do you ever wonder what might have been? If you’d turned left instead of right? If you’d chosen this instead of that? If you’d said yes instead of no? Would your life have turned out very differently? Or would you …
