Hannah’s actions and decisions make me sad sometimes. For long stretches I wonder how she’ll ever make it in the world. But she is also the person through whom I have had the opportunity to know true awe and pride. (You might not know that Hannah fought and won a complicated lawsuit against the Nassau County ...
It started here, and I’ve been walking in the subdivision across the street every morning at sunrise ever since. Then this happened, and it caused me to climb out of bed one day and make pizza with my kids and I’ve been slowly transitioning back into mealtime ever since. Then I bought bento boxes for my ...
My first mistake might have been using TV friendships as guides for how to measure my own behavior in relationships. As an only child, a weird child, and then a troubled, addicted adolescent/young adult, I was already crippled in the area of frienships when motherhood dealt me the triple death blow of isolation, fatigue, ...
I woke up this morning full of love, even at 8 a.m. “mom”, Hannah says, giggling. “I’m so glad you had me when you were young. It’s like we’re sisters!” after she yanks the covers off my burrowing body. “Let’s go ride the MARTA!” So we will. We’ll ride the MARTA, we’ll spend the hot part of ...
I keep composing these eloquent and interesting essays, about motherhood and sleep deprivation and dating and squirrels and the holidays. But it all happens either as I’m falling asleep or while I’m laying in bed in the morning not ready to get up yet, and by the time I get here to write, I simply ...