Mallory’s birthday this year came and went, for me, in a flash. A slow-moving, dragging out all day, must get a ton of stuff moved to my new house flash. If that’s how flashes work. She celebrated it with friends who came to visit from St. Louis and, while I called her early enough in [...]
This is my nephew Kenny. Yesterday was his birthday. This picture is two years old, but it’s my favorite picture of him. He gave me my one and only Valentine’s card this year. He used to steal my laptop from me when I visited his mom (my sister) and then he would write lovely, long [...]
My sister is 40 today. It’s a milestone in our family because she’s the eldest of all us girls and I’ve been teasing her about turning 40 for the last two years. “You know, you actually turn 40 twice, Erin. Once when you turn 39 because all you can think is OHMYGOD I’M GONNA BE [...]
Over the last two years our family has gotten used to going back and forth between parents. It’s a testament to the passing of time that I’m even able to admit such a difficult thing because I know it is not the ideal situation. More than anything I’ve learned that co-parenting sometimes results in an [...]
This past week more than a few friends have reached out to me to ask how I feel about this new show on the CW called “Life Unexpected” and the last time this happened was when “Juno” came out. It is strange how I am the poster child in my circle for getting a measurement [...]
One of the traditions with my children for Christmas is to get everyone a new pair of pajamas that they may open on Christmas Eve. The ruse used to be that everyone would “choose” one gift and we would make it the one they would WANT to open but then one year someone chose wrong [...]
This will be the first year in the history of my being a parent that I won’t be with my children on Thanksgiving day so we have decided to our meal today. It was the basic turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing, green bean casserole, pumpkin pie (blech. I don’t eat it, but the children do – [...]
First of all, can I please just mention that I am enjoying finding the time to write every day during the month of November but that it leaves little time to actually have the life I want to live and write about? Geez. It’s exhausting to just finally sit down at 9:53 to write after [...]
It’s not fair that I work all day and am the last one home. It’s not fair that the television is already spoken for and I have to watch whatever other people have on it. It’s not fair that the Discovery Channel was on for a really long time. But what IS fair is that [...]
When the first AIDS quilt was created in 1987 it took just a little time to reach me where I lived in Chicago. It was a time when sex, as a typical teenage subject, was not at all taboo. But at the time I recall my friends and I wanting to ignore what was going [...]
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