I see you looking in my direction with shock, awe and the same curiosity you have when a semi is on fire on the side of the highway.…
“Be careful that you don’t blow your hand off!” As a child, I played with firecrackers a lot. Christmas and New Years, 4th of July and Memorial Day,…
The phone woke me up; it was my husband calling from downstairs. "You have to bring Erin to the Emergency Room. "She called the suicide hotline; she doesn't have a plan, but she called.” I’m in shock and respond to him, "That’s impossible, she just spent the day in New York City with the Girl
Post-divorce I became “Broken Jenny.” I didn’t know where to start to pick up the pieces of my former life. I had no idea who I was, what…
Bullshit can sneak up on you. One moment life is copacetic and suddenly you are wading through a cesspool of liquid injustice, manipulation, and general fuckery. At some…
This world is bleeping crazy. And not in a good way. When it comes to watching the nightly news on TV, my husband and I had to invent…
It sort of happened by accident. One day we were a cable-loving family happily glued to the television screen watching crappy reality shows and the next we weren’t.…
I’m woken by the flicker of light between the bedroom blinds. I lay still and anticipate the fall, and by fall I mean that feeling you get when…
Tonight I sat in the Panera Bread parking lot for 2.5 hours after they had closed. What was I doing in my car for 2.5 hours on a Friday night? I was catching up on a week’s worth of texts, I was googling cotton candy makers and woodland decorations for my son’s 4th birthday party,
Dating as a single mom has been an emotional roller coaster. Correction. It’s been like an actual roller coaster where the kid in front of you throws up, the cart…