Our College Visit Disaster: What You Should Learn from My Mistakes
With a song in my heart, I got in the car to drive my daughter to our first college visit. …
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With a song in my heart, I got in the car to drive my daughter to our first college visit. …
Continue ReadingMemory ghosts dance in the periphery of my mind. Even though three weeks have passed since I dropped her off—my…
Continue Reading'Tis the season for dorms for those of us whose children are in college. You may be designing, planning,…
Continue ReadingTwo days before my first child left for college, I swallowed tears passing the chocolate milk in the grocery store.…
Continue ReadingMy son isn’t going to college. At least that’s not the plan for now. You see, college is pushed on…
Continue Reading“You need to stop this,” my mother said one evening when I called her in tears. “Join a book club,”…
Continue ReadingI still smell my son’s head. He is 18 and witty and a homebody and his hair always smells like, well,…
Continue ReadingToday I walked by your bedroom door and peeked in, out of habit I suppose. I saw your neatly made…
Continue ReadingHere we are again, with the big empty duffel bags out, waiting to be filled. It feels like we were…
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