Essential weekend reading (and listening)
I won't even pretend that this weekend is going to be cushy with time to sit around and ponder Rumi or even make it through one (as my grandmother used to say) gol-dang chapter of the book I loved for...
View ArticleThis getting to know the Not Boyfriend thing is not easy
The Not Boyfriend is exiled for the National Guard training for four months, which is grueling for him and tough for me and a strange limbo between coasts and visits. To help, I keep telling myself...
View ArticleWhat happened when I told the boy
The Not Boyfriend and I have been discussing these plans for him to move to Chicago for some time, vaguely at first and then in more detail. We'll take it slow, we've agreed again and again. He will...
View ArticleCrossing borders
My passport expired eight years ago. How in the world did that happen? It happened because of grad school and having $20 in my bank account for several years in a row and then meeting someone and being...
View ArticleMeeting of the men
Today, I fly to see my love. The early-ish days, hiking New Year's Eve, not quite 2012 And my brother who happens to live 20 minutes from where the Not Boyfriend is in training. 1979 Last summer at the...
View ArticleClosing up the little kitchen
I put the little kitchen away. I was sad to lug it, what felt like a hundred pounds of solid wood and plastic food clanking around in the cabinets, down the stairs to the storage space in the basement....
View ArticleEasy is good
Aside from the introductions and polite questions about work and the military, someone listening in to the dinner and brunch the Not Boyfriend and I shared with my brother and his family would have not...
View Article7 things I love about Washington, D.C.
The Not Boyfriend has been caught in a vortex of National Guard training and workouts and schedules that begin in the wee hours and end in exhaustion before many small children are asleep. After...
View ArticleWhere all the coolest things are
Here's what I brought Lil E back from Washington, D.C. It's a little cheapy statue of the Lincoln Memorial. He loves Abraham Lincoln and can even quote him after studying freedom fighters in school...
View ArticleEssential weekend reading: Should your kids see "The Avengers"? and other...
Should you take your child to see "The Avengers"? Lil E has been talking about this movie like crazy. And his fire is further fueled by the Lego Club magazine cover with "Avenger guyyyyys". If only the...
View ArticleSkin that's still 25? Maybe. Just maybe (+ a super-fab skincare deal)
A few weekends ago, just after my 40th birthday, a mom I talk to regularly looked at me quizzically after we were discussing the year I got married, when I got divorced. “You must have been very young...
View ArticleSingle moms on Mother's Day: It's still happening Monday
We put a lot of pressure on Mother's Day, don't we? Even if we don't intend to, even if past experience tells us to relax our expectations, we end up on the couch with a cup of cold coffee and...
View ArticleWho I am as a mother: Not just PRITTY. Also, ASSOM
We joke about how pretty and young I am. It's something silly between Lil E and me. He's developed enough sarcasm in his seven+ years to know there's more to being a mother than hot pink lipstick and...
View ArticleMy son's home(s)
I am always interested to hear -- or overhear -- how Lil E talks about where he lives. There's a lot behind an address, more behind the explanation from a kid who has only a few memories of when his...
View ArticleSummer: almost there
This was all I needed yesterday, to see this flower mid-bloom and blood red. Big, swollen heart leaves in-waiting all around it. OK, I needed this and some extra hugs from my boy, who barely wrapped...
View ArticlePut down the Doritos and read this
I've written many, many health posts over the years and it all began with one little post about how a seemingly endless Ayurvedic cleanse was making me unbearably crabby and in need of one -- JUST ONE!...
View ArticleTaking leaps
I love this photo so much. It's difficult sometimes to take a step back and see, really see, how much he is growing. I can tell by the pants, which seem to shrink on him in one week, one little...
View ArticleFavorite things: something an ex gave me
I don't have many things from former beaus (beaux?) floating around anymore. Time and a few well-strategized man-detoxes (detaux?) have cleared out many of the trinkets, jewelry and somehow-leftover...
View ArticleThe people you need on your side during divorce
It was only weeks into my divorce when an IM popped up from a friend on my computer screen. I’d finally written as openly as I could on my blog about what was happening—why I’d moved into my parents’...
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