Someone I know is going through a hard time.  I won’t pretend to know the details.  She is one of those people I seem to be drawn to in some way, maybe because I am fascinated by her personality for a hundred beautiful reasons.  She is a complicated person, imperfect in ways I can see [...]

Little sat atop the hairdresser’s booster seat, very still so as to not topple forward onto the bland linoleum floor.  She fiddled under the cape, picking at her cuticles.  They were often picked at and chewed.  A nervous habit that never went so far as her tiny nails.  Biting her nails was something she never [...]

It was late and the bedroom was dark.  She may have been four years old.  She stretched out her little legs as far as they would go, and wondered how long it would be before she would be tall enough to reach the foot board. She scooted herself down a little, cheating, stretching until she [...]

Lately I’ve seen an uptick in posts about motherhood, in terms of categorizing ourselves into little boxes.  Good moms, bad moms (tongue in cheek of course), working moms, stay at home moms, working from home moms, standing on their heads moms, moms who tattoo, moms who run, moms who inspire, moms who seize every morning [...]

Hilly did a post the other day that resurrected the “This I Believe..” meme that went around some time ago.
I’m not that deep today.  I’m high on life, and want to keep it light and airy like Papa’s pancakes, which he claims are so light they float away so eat ‘em fast!  Now I want [...]

Why is it when you try to do something good for yourself, you end up getting those fucking well-meaning people saying shit concerned things like,  “Isn’t 3.5 pounds in one week a little high?” “You’re not starving yourself again are you?” and “Maybe you should slow down.”
(there were many exceptions that were very encouraging on [...]