There’s something that happens as the calendar nears that final day of one year, and I anticipate cracking open a new calendar to welcome the fear, uncertainty, promise, and mundanity…
Paper Doll Tales Posts
I woke up this morning to two wide blue eyes staring at me from five inches away. The eyes moved to two inches away and a blonde head of downy…
Little Friend went to the doctor today and was diagnosed with “Christmas Fever.” It sounds technical, right? Not quite the ear infection that I had imagined after the past week…
Sometimes failure looks like a messy house. Failure leers at me from the kitchen sink where dishes multiply with the voracity of an alley-full of un-spayed cats. Failure jeers at…
What does one do when one returns to Pittsburgh from a beach Thanksgiving to find a grey-shrouded, mist-breathing Midwinter has settled on her heavy haunches to brood until spring hatches?…
I’m grateful: 1. For a little girl with hair that spouts like a whale’s sneeze. 2. For a pastured turkey that glazed succulent and delicious after 12 hours in a…