His smile fuels me and bathes me His giggle upturns my frowns His unfazed demeanor pauses my skepticism Nothing better than my memories of his happiness To be a mom fills me with joy To be his mom fills me with pride It is an honor to know […]
It’s hard to believe. That time of the year has come back around. It is my baby’s birthday. He’s not a baby, really. But that is besides the point. Eleven years ago, he came into the world wide-eyed. I will never forget that face and those eyes. I […]
Growing up my mom was often quite fearful. Yet she was very brave. Let me explain. I grew up in the South Bronx. It was not necessarily the safest area for a young girl or many others. Things have since changed but there was fear of crime in […]
Many years ago, I taught a session on how many of our popular sayings contradict one another and leave some people in a state of mass confusion. For instance, you have “birds of a feather flock together” and “opposites attract“. Both are correct in different contexts. Friends […]
I like to laugh. Now that may seem as an odd statement to make. It would seem that everyone likes to laugh. Who can say no to laughing, really? Even curmudgeons are going to laugh every once in a while. I would even venture to guess […]
Thee last 6 weeks (or even more than that) have been ones where I was constantly doing something. I packed up and sold a house, moved into an apartment, had three weeks of back to back business trips, got a major rash from a centipede bite that […]
My son makes me laugh. Sometimes he makes me “belly laugh”. A good deep laughter that tickles my stomach. I asked him the other day why he was so goofy and silly and he looked at me noting he got that from me. He is a […]
I have been walking around as if I were a zombie. Well, at least how popular culture depicts zombies. I am not too sure whether actual zombies are as mindlessly oriented as in the Walking Dead, but that is how I feel. I used to say I had […]
I am a very nostalgic person. I like holding onto mementos. I have held onto a small box for over 20 years that holds my high school facebook. It was literally a small book that had our face photos so that we would know who was who. I […]
A few months ago, or so I believe, a sweet story went viral about a dad who made his daughter’s lunch everyday until her last day of high school. Actually, this was more like a year ago and the story was more about how her dad peeled […]