According to my son, a few moments ago, we as a family move every year. That’s not necessarily true. It may be perhaps 1.5 years or 8.5 months. Yes we are moving again. However, this time we are moving into a house that we are purchasing. Fingers crossed […]
He ran down the long hallway, wondering if he would make it on time. He couldn’t think. Couldn’t allow himself to think through this any further. He can only act. Or else … He ran and reached the phone. It looked so strange and old. This wasn’t his […]
This week has been excruciatingly hard and long and somewhat depressing. I have seen and heard the fear that two other people have in regards to their future and longevity. I needed a distraction. These days, distractions come in the form of social media, exercise, just watching the […]
Look at that happy face. Too happy to be contained. Yet… Imagining a tsunami of tears coming over his face. His giggle. His bright eyes. His rambunctousness. Sadly, Nothing can prepare you for the sadness of a child. It is that thought and image that is running through […]
Can you tickle yourself? My son tries quite often to tickle himself. He repeatedly assures me that he can. I don’t really believe that. He offers his laufhter as proof. I often explain to him that he probably laughs when he tickles himself because he cracks himself up. […]
It feels as if lately I am making up for lost movie-seeing time. I hadn’t gone to the movie theatre in ages before this past year. Now that I live in Los Angeles blocks away from a huge movie theatre, I can’t seem to stop myself from going […]
Not today. Most definitely tomorrow. Maybe tomorrow. We’ll have to make it work somehow. But definitely not today. Not right now. For it just cannot be. These bones are tired. These bones ache. These bones wait for a reprieve. All I got is what I have […]
At this point in time, many individuals have some kind of social media presence. It can be Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, WordPress and so on. Some people just use one form of social media and others, have multiple platforms from which to communicate to the world. Often when […]
It has been unsually hot in Los Angeles, or at least in comparison to last year when I first moved here. I do not recall last summer being so hot here. I know LA is supposed to be hot, but last summer my sister felt chills when she […]
Everything in her life was out of a fairy tale. Her name. Her gifts. Her clothes. A good fairy tale where she mysteriously bypassed all hardships going straight to living the happily ever after piece. Or rather, pieces. She structured her days at college perfectly so that she […]