It’s the first day of school. College. I sent my son some Venmo money. For coffee. Or whatever he needed on his first day of college. It’s surreal. The fact that I can pay for coffee without standing next to him, or the fact that he’s starting college. It’s a new stage in all of...
I didn’t want the chickens. My husband had been begging to get them for a few years. And I just couldn’t commit myself to it. Because here’s the thing about the animals here on the compound….they are mostly mine. I work from home. I worry about them and check on them a thousand times a...
It hasn’t snowed, heavily, on January 6th… for 16 years. I know this because it’s my sons birthday. And plans have never been canceled. School has never been canceled. And he has never had a snow cake until today. All that aside. We still managed to make it to the DMV. He still managed to...
Today is the day I start the New Year. While I love those days at the beginning of January, this is my true beginning every year. I made it! Another time around. What an enormous feat! I may be a little bruised and battered, but damn there was a lot of fun had. And a...
They say that the body is incapable of remembering physical pain. The thing that our bodies and mind remember are the emotions attached to that pain. Labor is one of the most excruciating pains a human can live through. Our bodies, as women, transform. But you forget. Mostly. Because the end result….. is a baby....