When the first note–the wrong note–soared out of her violin, I stopped breathing. She stood in front of the audience of strangers, of other children fingering violins, guitars, and piano music, and…
Category: <span>Motherhood</span>
“The days are long, but the years are short.” This is the kind of anonymous quotery that gets stuck in my maternal craw, and no matter how I hack at…
Because of my fixation between food and mood and season, two stores float to the top of my happy list during the Thanksgiving shopping blitz: Williams Sonoma and Costco. Williams…
Dear Immediate Family Members of Mine, Perhaps I’ve forgotten to tell you lately that I adore you. I dote on you, to use a word learned from our spelling test…
To get my girl to glow, give her a compliment, in front of other people, and go overboard with the gushing praise. This may also get my introvert girl to…
It’s something you just gotta do, kid. One foot has to be placed in front of another, up the bus steps, and back down into that brand new school building…