
Thoughts from a pessimistic optimist and empty-nester. This is not the place for you if any of your feeds describe you as “pulled together or perfectionist.” A true believer that the right shoes and jeans can make most bad days better.
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The first week of an empty nest is heavy. It feels like your life is ending. Especially if you didn’t work outside the home.
My son found me in the hallway of a hotel last August. I was weeping. I was like a heroine in an Emily Brontë nove...
It will be the best of times and the worst of times. Bring mints.
Move-in day will be the best of times and the worst of times.
You will spend ten hours on your feet in a dorm with no air conditi...
In 2008, I stopped drinking. Not a break, not a trial run, a full on commitment. I was done. Miserable. I couldn’t live with myself anymore. And what I expected was misery, to be a social pariah (I sort of was if we are being honest) and to...
I took my first baby to the pediatrician. The questions were always the same: did he roll over? Did he sit up?
I imagine my mother was asked the same questions. Did she walk? Did she say her first word?
But no one asked, has she felt it y...
She was the leader of an unnamed rebellion singing about virginity and a material world. Every eleven-year-old girl in America loved her. I’d never been to a concert; I was only eleven, but I begged and pleaded with my father to take my fri...
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