One day last week I watched casually as my 5-year-old daughter held a thimble-sized sticker in her hand the shape of a triangle. Her eyes squinting and her mouth opened slightly, I could see she was immersed in concentration. She was trying to apply this...
I don't know how to write this post without making myself look like a total asshole. So I won't. Because I am being a total asshole. At least recently. I have been having the most horrible, mean-spirited and hateful thoughts about another person and no amount...
There's this great detail in the novel, The World According to Garp by John Irving that describes a misunderstanding of the word "undertow" by the protagonist's (Garp's) toddler son. When Garp explains to the boy the qualities and potential dangers of an ocean undertow, the...
A fuse that led to the fate of the rest of my life was lit and burned for five helpless minutes. In the sixty seconds that followed those five minutes, it reached its target and detonated my heart inside my chest. Now, I will never...
I need space to think. I know this about myself. I need time to reflect, to ponder, to remember over and over and over the reasons why what I'm doing is important. I need time to untangle the thoughts and emotions that twist like vines in my head, and to...
[caption id="attachment_1618" align="alignright" width="1024"] Image credit- aswirly.com[/caption] It was just before midnight on that muggy August night. My windows were down. I took the winding back roads so that I could take my time, turn the radio up, and remember the feeling of the hot wind of my hometown...
I bought this little contraption the other day. It's a single serving vegetable steamer for making baby food. Truthfully, it was an impulse purchase. It was on the discount shelf and I thought it would come in handy and also inspire me to make more fresh baby food. I looked and looked all over the package but...
I used to watch gynecological surgeries on a daily basis. Sometimes they were in the OR, other times in the doctor's office. Sometimes the doctors used equipment I was responsible for, on a patient...
On August 28th, 1987 I know exactly where I was and what I was doing. I was nine. It was Friday and one of the last days of summer before the first day of 4th grade. That morning I was just another American kid riding my pink, banana-seat...