Thinking back on my mother is kind of like…my family is history is like a wood-pile I once sorted and stacked up. It’s fallen down over the last dozen years. …
After I attended Monday’s screening of Peterson’s version of Poseidon, I left in good spirits. The movie with Kurt Russell as the overprotective father was entertaining. Teens will really enjoy …
If you’re going to write a book about yourself, then the first question you must consider is where to begin? Right now many of you are saying to yourself “Just …
It was 1978. I was 22 years old, had been married for 4 years, and recently widowed, four days before my son’s first birthday. The marriage was not a happy …
When talking to inanimate objects Martha never lost her sense of humor. “Abracadabra!” Martha shouted into the wall, laughing, “Does anyone hear me? Can you open the door please?” Passing …
For years, my most unforgettable moments were ones where I made errors — blunders, screw-ups, super embarrassing moments. Actions that provoked major shame attacks, either then or later. Sort of …
What do Puerto Ricans, disabled people and dwarfs have in common? Give up? They are all at the bottom of the social ladder. According to Real Housewives of Orange County, …
I felt something else as well–a sense of loss. But not the kind of loss one feels when you lose a close family member, or anyone or anything that you …
There are moments and there are Moments: someone called them “Aha Moments.” These, for me, are usually sudden and not necessarily rational. They happen like somebody—Somebody or Something—smacking me upside …