I've had an inner critic in my mind since childhood, cautioning me about what I eat, long before I understood where that voice came from. I inherited genes from my family that predisposes me to gain weight easily. While growing up, I watched the women on one side of...
This is going to be really hard to share. I'm sharing it anyway. Midlife overwhelm is real, and somewhere in the writing, I'm hoping to convince myself it was okay, that I was okay, even when I really wasn't. There was a lot of build up before our momentous trip to...
They accumulate in the corners of our minds and homes: skills, experiences, dog-eared books, fragments of inspiration. What if these things aren’t random clutter, but whispers of something more significant taking shape. Have you ever felt that familiar midlife...
As the semester swiftly moves toward a close, I feel a sense of relief that the end is near, but a sort of sadness begins to seep in as well. Endings tend to make me feel more nostalgic as I get older. My body starts to get quiet and I find myself sitting with the...
We heard him before we saw him, a tiny little boy wailing. Standing on our back porch facing the alley, we saw a little guy zoom down on his little scooter, crying out of fear or extreme anger. My teacher/principal/mother radar went up and, as I usually do when I am...
I thought the solo trip was more about my son, but I found out it was for me. The fear of traveling alone consumed me and the only remedy was my vision of reuniting with my son in Spain. He was spending a year studying abroad in Madrid, Spain and I missed him...
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