"I had a stormy rant ready, but...." Read More

Mom spent Mother's Days closeted. Read More

Warning: this is a rant. A month ago, I might have written something more cheerful. Maybe next month. But I’m suddenly undone. Read More

We were jet-lagged but happy to be in Paris in spring again. But the first full day we were there, instead of wandering the streets, taking in tulips and new leaves and La Vie en Rose, my husband and I were pounding the cement catacomb labyrinth under the Gare de Lyon. We wanted a week-long… Read More

When I was fifteen and my brother 9, an event changed our motel karma from heaven to hell. Read More

"Cheater! Cheater! My babysitter said I cheated at Monopoly.  I didn’t. I just was too shy to ask the rules. Lying—that’s another story. I became a past master at an early age." Read More