Hello friends! I apologize for being a stranger these past several weeks. The month of May took me by surprise in a few ways and as a result, my attention has been pulled from this hallowed writing sphere. Well, I'm back. Because I've been missing you. Because I've been missing the feel of the keys…
I was planning to finish up and post a political commentary blog about Bernie Sanders today. However, the news of Anthony Bourdain's death prompts me to write about depression. Other than a few transitional times in my life I have never suffered from depression. But I believe that my father did, especially toward the end…
Dear Humanity, I see the goodness in you when you ask for compassion even when your instinct is to punish. Even when it is clear that the person doesn't deserve or even desire your compassion. It is hard to stand up for people that you believe are wrong, but I've seen you do it and…
This man that I married makes me the most important thing in his life. This man that I married loves his family and loves the life we've built together. This man that I married is content to sit on the floor reading, playing, giggling with our daughter every evening. This man that I married takes…
In honor of one of my favorite podcasts, Pop Culture Happy Hour, I thought I'd begin writing a regular post about what's making me happy. Ideally this will be something that you can also check out. In other words, not just something personal like my daughter's laugh...But I can't make any promises. There may come…
I have several opinion essays in the works but I can't seem to finish them. I can't get myself in the right head space, more precisely, into the intellectual head space to finalize them. Work is getting in the way. My darling daughter steals all my attention with her cuteness. What's a writer to do?…
Dear Little Human, I hear you will be joining us sometime soon. I'm Rover, aka Buddy-pal, aka Red dog. I can't say that I'm completely thrilled that there is another little human on its way. In truth, I'm feeling a little dismayed. The first one, well...it was tiny and used to just lay around. That…
Dear Baby Brother, My name is Evelyn. I'm a sister. Do you know what a sister is? I'm not totally sure either, but Mama and Dada keep telling me that's what I am now. Or that's what I'm gonna be soon. So I don't know what that means, but I hope being a sister is…
I woke up thinking about the movie Ferris Bueller's Day Off this morning, though I have no idea why. It was the scene where the principle says "9 times" and Ferris' mom asks "9 times?" and the principle repeats "9 times." It's the way he says NIIIIIIIEEEEEENNNNEEE that makes me chuckle. Then Ferris hacks the…
Hundreds of billions of stars in hundreds of billions of galaxies... In all of that, here we are. Here, we became us. From the most unlikely odds, our planet became the earth we know. From the most unlikely odds, humans were born from that planet. It occurs to me on occasion just how special we…
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