Stand Mixer and Prayer

Michael Giaetto, I’m putting this up for you because you liked it so much!  Five years ago, I had more counter space. The counter...

Crying Next to Pretty Mom at Soccer

I started crying at my son’s soccer game yesterday. Not rocking back and forth blubbering, and not silent-hiccup sobbing, just a sort of leaky-eyed...

There’s This Purse

There was this purse I saw, and I thought it could change my life, and maybe it will. I’m not usually a purse person,...

Being Tommy Lee Jones

It seems to me that motherhood is cool again. Mommyhood’s day has arrived, and it is cool as long as you have the right...

Poem-in-my-forties 1

A toddler in a red jacket bends down to pick something up in the street, wind blown hair hiding her face, his face, I...

True Grit

The Holiday Season is here, and the T.V networks are trying to work in a few feel good movies now and then, squeezed in...