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Pain is Beauty
I talk to my mom on the phone most evenings. The frequency of our phone calls tapered to once a week conversations during my marriage and then re-instituted itself as an almost daily routine upon my...
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No, Katie, There is No Santa Claus
Katie has been asking to take a picture with Santa for the past few days. She usually avoids pictures, so I was perplexed until I heard her whispering to Paige that she wanted to sit on Santa’s lap and...
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Going Solo
Earlier this week, I was trading text messages with my friend Tim, a widower raising three sons and a daughter on his own. We were commiserating over parenting issues (I have the inverse of his family,...
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What is a Marriage Made of?
On Valentine’s Day this past year, my mother told me that Dad bought her a beautiful necklace she had liked in the store. I asked what she bought him. Mom said she bought Dad a Kit Kat bar. “Dad gave...
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