Smile! I cannot promise others will smile in return But I can promise you will feel a joyous burn Smile! For it will be your armor against the venom darts That the embittered will wrongly aim at your heart Smile! For in the darkest, stormiest hour You will […]
Went to sleep late last night, holding on tightly to my IPAD. Not unlike many other Americans and the technology-obsessed. Dreamt wild dreams of working underground battling bats and snakes; and those were just my co-workers. Woke up with frizzy curls and a fuzz head. Waddled over to […]
It shouldn’t be that a child wipes away the tears off his mother’s cheek It shouldn’t be that a doggie licks away his best friend’s hands covered in fallen tears The salt of the earth to be felt in the moment Nightmares of old, disturbing the daylight hours […]
I am too sleepy to make my coffee I am too blind to find my dropped contact lens I am too anesthetized to blow out my hair I am too freaked out by the swooshing sounds of my heartbeat I am too uncoordinated to make perfect cheese triangles […]
I run purposefully I write angrily I think heartily I rhyme sadly I sing fitfully I weed productively I laugh exuberantly I work hungrily I eat chaotically I drink jovially I walk curiously I mother awe-ingly I dream longingly, yet warily I am emotion In every execution
Have you ever rushed to the restroom at work to only forget to use it? Yes? No? Weird? Why yes, it is weird. But such is my life. I tend to wear high heels, with about 30 under my office desk, and I have a bit of a […]
No matter what your child says or does, stand by them and love them. All of us must find our own way, and live up to our own decisions whatever they may be. Love them stronger than their actions or words, love them because they are your children.-Anonymous […]
About eight years ago a colleague of mine told me of a special gesture he used to do for his wife on her birthday. He would send flowers to his mother in-law thanking her for giving birth to his beautiful wife. I was dumfounded. Until that point, birthdays […]
Lies make the world go round. Especially mothers. As author John Green said, “Mothers lie. It’s in the job description”. We don’t like to call it lying. In fact we invent all sorts of euphemisms for it – gilding the lily, telling tall tales, inventing a fish story, […]