"Hey, come here a second," my mom said as she replaced the book in my hands with a wooden spoon covered in what I prayed was red sauce. Together, we walked into the kitchen and hovered over the skillet like we were peering into a crystal ball. Looking into my future, I saw me eating a lot of takeout. "Now see - first you brown your ground round," she said, soldiering on ...
Sinners Like Me
I was fifteen when my daddy's old man Caught me half way through my first beer He laughed so hard when my face turned green He said “You come from a long line of sinners like me” -Eric Church "Oh my goodness I just KNEW it was you," the nurse burst through my hospital door, rushed over to the bed and gave a gentle side hug, careful to avoid my C-section incision. "I saw ...
Planning A Trip To Disney World Is The Most Difficult Thing I’ve Ever Made Someone Else Do
When I lived in Europe, my friend Carrie came over to visit and we spent a week in this town in Italy called Cinque Terre. It's a series of five cliff side villages connected by ancient goat paths turned into hiking trails, surrounded by water the color of a million emeralds and people laying on the beach with boobies hanging every which way but nobody cares about that, or any ...
Three Little Girls Who Can’t. Even.
I've been taking a bit of a blog hiatus, because in a moment of delusional grandeur last spring I decided that my kids and I are going to have a totally groovy 70s style summer. No bells and whistles, no frills, no fancy camps. Just some good old fashioned playing in the sprinklers, drinking water straight out of the garden hose, throwing a pack of cigarettes on the deck and ...
The Gift
This morning I had to go to the post office to mail a baby gift. The post office is my least favorite of all the awful places I take my kids, gynocologist included. It's quiet, and everyone is standing in line with nothing better to do than judge me when my kids act up. There are a million things lying around that pull their fingers in like a magnetic force field. Boxes, ...