Last weekend, our son and his wife came to visit, bringing their two small children. We sat around the dining table, happily chatting about everything and nothing. Eventually, the subject got around to the wee ones’ schooling and the expected level of commitment from parents and grandparents in fund-raising events. Including the dreaded Bake Sale. I […]
He’s 89? Yeah, He Wants Me
Enjoying a recent happy hour with a girlfriend, when she looked at me with a big grin and pointed to a table across the room, where she spotted a man looking at me with obvious interest. I turned around, and the first table I noticed was occupied by four young 30-somethings. As I was flashing them my brightest I-know-I-could-be-your-mother-but-I’m-not smile, she burst […]
He Tried to Dump Me. We Got Married Instead
Kenny and I almost didn’t get married. During our dating year prior to the wedding, he dumped me. Twice. He’d be quick to jump in here and state that it wasn’t for lack of love. He just wasn’t sure we could go the distance. He’d been married a couple of times before (as had I) and was […]
Mamas in Afghanistan. It Could Work
As summer rolls forward, it seems everyone’s talking about family vacation plans, including plans to send young offspring off to theme parks, famous campgrounds, and animated wonderlands with grandparents, giving moms and dads much-needed breaks to be adult couples instead of parents for 2 blissful weeks out of the year. When Jake was 6, we […]
Pee Test…You’re Doing It Wrong
Living in Maui for several years was truly an adventure. There are many cultural idiosyncrasies, and one of them is the thoroughness with which they check you out before they hire you for virtually any job. Since many people move to the Islands specifically to escape (literally or figuratively) from the mainland and become more […]
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