The concept of unplugging is a thing of beauty. Set aside the phone, close the laptop, hide the remote, and give yourself completely to the three dimensional. The pressure to unplug and the judgement of not doing so has become an oppressive blanket. The divide between those of us who use the online realm for [...]
Monday, May 13, 2013
I’ve never been good at asking for help. I’m still not. It’s no secret that I’ve been working my way through some things lately. I’ve been circling and searching for something, but the truth is that I just can’t do this one alone. I want to find expressive, profound words for what has happened, not the [...]
Wednesday, May 8, 2013
I was standing with my back against a brick wall and talking to a colleague. The dressing room mirror shone in the afternoon light and I could see my reflection as she asked, “You ok? This whole thing is aging you. It really is, I mean you can see it,” and she motioned at my [...]
Monday, April 29, 2013
Lest anyone think that I am always positive, always overflowing with patience and calm, may I demonstrate that in addition to running a tender post I wrote about bedtime, the Huffington Post also shared a not so sentimental moment that I experienced: So as we all slog through another Monday, maybe you started yours with an [...]
Wednesday, April 24, 2013
The other day I was driving toward our house to meet the bus. I was coming around a bend that always gives me pause, something about it makes me brace for a child darting into the road. One night, I was coming home very late, just as I came up the hill to the bend, [...]
Tuesday, April 16, 2013
I can remember, from the first hint of a bump, the way people would lavish their wisdom upon me. Some days I took the words as a gift, other times they came as jarring admonitions. Safest your kids will ever be, is right there in your belly. The days are long, but the years are short. Just wait [...]
Sunday, April 14, 2013
I’ve been quietly cataloging the proliferation of things like 30day challenges that I see floating around everywhere from Instagram to Pinterest to Facebook. I love the idea of having a smorgasbord of options from which to choose how to improve oneself, but I think we are getting overloaded. Organize your house, tone your abs, be [...]
Thursday, April 11, 2013
In what world would you ever justify a crime by laying blame on the victim? If I leave my front door unlocked does it give someone permission to come inside? If the door is thrown wide open does that mean that anyone is invited to come and take whatever they’d like? If there is a can of spray [...]
Tuesday, March 26, 2013
I have no illusions that raising three daughters will be easy. I know from my own experience that self-confidence and self-acceptance can be ephemeral, a revelation of my own worth one day is hammered by crippling doubt another. Then there are things like Steubenville and the coveted thigh gap. The technology that they are growing [...]
Wednesday, March 20, 2013
We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal. Tennessee Williams, Camino Real I found this too late. I wonder, even now understanding the truth in the quote, if it is really something that I could ever live. Perhaps, I’ll get used to the regret for having believed in people more than they [...]
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
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