Today I opened the boxes. The ones I packed over a year ago, when this new home seemed like…
Sometimes I just want it done. To ask for the room to be cleaned up, the fighting to stop, the…
About nine months ago I felt like I needed to get some counseling. I had come through a very stressful…
There is a great deal of existential questioning going on at my house lately, from all quarters. I am learning…
I didn’t have big goals for my life. I don’t know if I was afraid to ask too much, convinced…
Some days I don’t want to let them in. When I awake to the shrieks and complaints before I’ve had…
Mostly I think my life is ordinary and boring. I’ve wiped a lot of noses, changed hundreds of diapers, done…
I grow weary of being the linchpin, the load bearing wall and the rudder. Some of this is just part…
It had been a rough week, a rough month if I was being honest. I had been running on adrenaline,…
I usually think of work as a synonym for hard or drudgery. But that isn’t really fair. Last Sunday our…
