I Get a Front-Row Seat to My Son Growing Up From the High School Parking Lot
I’ve been in some scary places in my lifetime. But hands down one of the scariest places I’ve ever been…
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I’ve been in some scary places in my lifetime. But hands down one of the scariest places I’ve ever been…
Continue ReadingYour door is always closed, never exposing your feelings to me. I ask questions you don’t want to answer—I worry…
Continue Reading“It’s sort of like having a little taste of war, here,” my son says on the way to the airport.…
Continue ReadingI think back on your toddler years when we lived in the big city and how when you fell on…
Continue ReadingToday, I received a text from my daughter. “I didn’t make the show. I thought I had a great audition…
Continue ReadingDear Mom: We’ve spent 17 years together, so where do I start? I know raising me hasn’t been a graceful…
Continue ReadingAnd then there were five. Five measly years left with you. How could that ever be enough? How could five…
Continue ReadingIt seemed the moment the pregnancy test showed a positive result, the loads of advice from well-meaning parents appeared as…
Continue ReadingI’m a mess in this moment, you guys. You’re probably looking at this picture and just seeing a kid walking…
Continue ReadingI could see she was holding back tears as she walked down the steps of the school bus and into…
Continue ReadingI still smell my son’s head. He is 18 and witty and a homebody and his hair always smells like, well,…
Continue ReadingMy 14-year-old texted me from her break at work, telling me she felt impending doom. You don’t know my daughter,…
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